Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it… — Albert Schweitzer
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man. — Mencius
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness.… — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather… — Joseph Rotblat
Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others. — Rick Warren
Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He… — Charles Stanley
The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness — Lionel Barrymore
The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway. — Laurence Overmire
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has,… — Samuel Johnson
Four things are destroyed by the other fours: kindness by ingratitude, strength (of government) by crime, power by power and human love by arrogance. — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free. — Yanni
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . . — Wilferd Peterson
There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. — William Barclay
All done by kindness. — David Devant
Love is the ultimate state of human being where compassion prevails and kindness rules. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as… — Saint John Chrysostom
Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves. — Janette Oke
Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues. — Krista Tippett
I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or… — Clare Balding
The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another. — Adam Hamilton
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience… — Charles Sturt
Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. — Naomi Shihab Nye

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