Kindness Quotes

How would your life be different ifYou pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the dayYou let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions.

Steve Maraboli

With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.

Steve Maraboli

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Steve Maraboli

If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Stephen King

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Francis Schaeffer

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity

Hung TzuCheng

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

English Proverb

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Chogyam Trungpa

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Herman Melville

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

R. Foreman

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

Always, Sir, set a 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

Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.

Mahatma Gandhi

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

Pau (Pablo) Casals