Kindness Related Qoutes
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Amelia Earhart
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin
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 De Angelis
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Benjamin Jowett
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D. H. Lawrence
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
Frederick W. Faber
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Goethe
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama
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
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Harold Kushner
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
Henry David Thoreau
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
Henry James
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
Jane Nelson
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Joseph Addison
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
Lao-Tse
Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tse
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Kindness trumps greed it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Marc Estrin
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Philo
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness.
Seneca
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.
Talmud
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
Thomas Berry
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Willa Cather
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William Menninger
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.
William Wordsworth