Kindness Quotes

I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.

Neil Gaiman

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Frank A. Clark

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.

C.S. Lewis

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Scott Elledge

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.

Leo Tolstoy

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Samuel Johnson

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

LaoTzu

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

William Cowper

It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Anne Baxter

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Jodi Picoult

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

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