Kindness Quotes

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.

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

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

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.

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

Kindness is wisdom.

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

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

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

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.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Everyone responds to kindness.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

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

I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.