Kindly Quotes

308 Kindly quotes by 246 unique authors

Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses,… — Andrew Ryan
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B. C. Forbes
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as it unfolds minute… — Sue Thoele
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.… — Henry David Thoreau
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please… — Jonathan Swift
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy.… — Bertrand Russell
Ham will continue to be servant of servants, as the Lord decreed, until the curse is removed. will the present struggle free the slave? No;… — Brigham Young
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people — Norman Vincent Peale
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . .… — William Osler
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished.… — Peace Pilgrim
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west! — Emily Dickinson
In kindly showers and sunshine bud The branches of the dull gray wood; Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks The blue eye of the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,… — Dorothy Parker
God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full… — Mary Howitt
The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is… — C.S. Lewis
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again. — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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