Kindness Quotes

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.

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.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

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.

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.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

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.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

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.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

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.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.