Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take… — George Eliot
Men are cruel, but Man is kind. — Rabindranath Tagore
You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle… — Tony Kushner
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll… — Margaret Atwood
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates… — Philip Pullman
In the end only kindness matters. — Jewel
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much… — A A Milne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot and days of auld lang syne? For auld lang syne,… — Robert Burns
That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls - we all have a bit of that -… — Lorrie Moore
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the… — James A. Baldwin
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my… — Charlotte Bronte
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't… — Abigail Van Buren
My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because… — Douglas Coupland
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild... — Mary Karr
Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. — Euripides
Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness,… — Mary Oliver
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in… — John Steinbeck
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. — Khalil Gibran
I'm making a list I'm making a list of things I must say For politeness, And goodness and kindness and gentleness Sweetness and rightness: Hello… — Shel Silverstein
Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example. — John Ruskin
Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are… — Matthew Scully

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