Kindness Quotes

I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined in what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.

Steve Maraboli

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.

Marcus Aurelius

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Plato

In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

Pablo Casals

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world.

Steve Maraboli

I must be cruel only to be kind

William Shakespeare

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Margaret Cho

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?

T.F. Hodge

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

Rick Riordan

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution

Kahlil Gibran

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

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Leroy Jack Syrop

Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.

Marquis de Sade

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Kindness begets kindness.

Proverb

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Publilius Syrus

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Kurt Vonnegut