Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

Acting without design, occupying oneself without making a business of it, finding the great in what is small and the many in the few, repaying… — Laozi
Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world — Dar Williams
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses. — Charles de Lint
A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and… — Sheri S. Tepper
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is… — Rachel Simmons
Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning. — Mike Hernacki
Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers. — Croft M. Pentz
Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives. — Anthony D. Williams
What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge… — Robert E. Lee
We are made kind by being kind. — Eric Hoffer
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower
Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends. — James Thomas Fields
Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom… — Immanuel Kant
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity… — Grenville Kleiser
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up… — Jeremy Bentham
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what… — B. C. Forbes
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one. — Seneca the Younger
All values in this world are more or less questionable, but the most important thing in life is human kindness. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best… — Unknown Author
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Gentle to others, to himself severe. — Samuel Rogers
Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds! — William Shakespeare

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