Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are… — Humphry Davy
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in… — Ellen DeGeneres
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… — Ellen DeGeneres
I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man. — Cat Deeley
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for… — Princess Diana
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. — Princess Diana
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased… — Princess Diana
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. — Benjamin Disraeli
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. — Henry Van Dyke
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. — Marian Wright Edelman
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. — Marian Wright Edelman
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its… — Albert Einstein
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. — George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. — George Eliot
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost… — Queen Elizabeth II
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that… — Brian Eno
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. — Sarah Fielding
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. — Carrie Fisher
The more sympathy you give, the less you need. — Malcolm Forbes
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer. — Dag Hammarskjold
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. — Dag Hammarskjold
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day,… — Nhat Hanh

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