Kindness Quotes

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

David P. Mikkelson, snopes. com, September 8, 2003

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Robert Solow

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Henry Drummond

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

Steve Pershing

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitze

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.

1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

Emma Goldman

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao - Tzu

Liberty, equality - Bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice blessed is he who repeats it.

Arab Prove

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Walter Savage Lando

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.

Madame Swetchine

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

Anonymous

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephan Grellet

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Unknown

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Llama