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 effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.Dan Kelly
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.American Prove
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
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
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
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth.Samuel Butle
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.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
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
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
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
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
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.Annie Lennox
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.Author Unknown
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
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
A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.Saint Basil
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.Julia A. Fletcher Carney
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
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Kahlil Gibron
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.Confucius
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.Aesop
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Liberty, equality - Bad principles The only true principle for humanity is justice and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.Henri Frdric Amiel
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.Steve Pershing
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.Lao - Tzu
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
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.J. Jacques, Something Positive Comic, 08 - 22 - 05
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003