Kindness Quotes

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

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

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.