Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any… — Mark Twain
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this… — Richard Dawkins
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. — Elihu Burritt
Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind;… — Frederick William Faber
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another. — George H. W. Bush
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness. — Glen Duncan
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. — Henry David Thoreau
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret… — Honore de Balzac
Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. — James Leonard Gordon
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too… — James Leonard Gordon
Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand. — James Leonard Gordon
Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred… — John Angell James
One good turn asketh another. — John Heywood
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence,… — Joseph Addison
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak… — Laozi
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return. — Lewis B. Smedes
Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way… — Piero Ferrucci
My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness. — Dalai Lama
For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find… — William Butler Yeats
Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible,… — Albert Camus
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — George D. Prentice
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer. — Charles Spurgeon
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its… — Thomas Berry
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has… — Willa Cather
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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