Kindness Quotes

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Nonpareil

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Robert Burns

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.

Robert Burns

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

Camille Anna Paglia

To belittle, you have to be little.

Kahlil Gibran

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J.K. Rowling

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart.

Ella Higginson

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often.

Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different ifYou stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the dayYou look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.

Steve Maraboli

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?Often paraphrased as: Always be a little kinder than necessary.

James Barrie, The Little White B

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. When I am gone, I hope it can be said of me that I plucked a thistle and planted a flower wherever I thought a flower would grow.

Anon.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read

Mark Twain

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

The Talmud

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.

Arthur H. Stainback

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William John Bennett

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.

George Orwell

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert G. Ingersoll

To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.

Laber