Kindness Quotes

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
Anita roddick, a revolution in kindness, 2003 - the end result of kindness is that it draws...
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Kahlil Gibran
Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.
Steve Pershing
Arab prove - blessed is he who speaks a kindness thrice...
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
Madame Swetchine
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
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia A. Fletcher Carney
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
There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.
Anonymous
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
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
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.
1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible
The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.
Prophet Mohammed
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
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
Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.
Dan Kelly
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
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Author 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
Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
Henry Drummond
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
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
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
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
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is wasted.
Aesop
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".
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