Kindness Quotes

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

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara DeAngelis

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Anonymous

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

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

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

Walter Savage Lando

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - Control. Against such things, there is no law.

The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible - Galations 5: 22 - 23 NIV

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Henry Drummond

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

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Madame Swetchine

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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.

Ettiene De Grellet

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

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

Steve Pershing

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Unknown

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

Richard Dehmel

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

Cicero

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

Confucius

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

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

Demosthenes

Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.

Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15

Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.

Samuel Butle

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

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.

J. Jacques, Something Positive Comic, 08 - 22 - 05

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 Lama

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Annie Lennox