Kindness Quotes

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Samuel Johnson

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Henry Burton

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.

Thich Nhat Hanh

No Act of Kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Flip Wilson

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

Whoopi Goldberg

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

Katherine Francke

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Kin Hubbard

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

Bhagavad Gita

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Blaise Pascal

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

Paul Tillich

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick W. Faber

I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care.

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