Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to… — William Penn
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. — Khalil Gibran
When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. — Rachel Naomi Remen
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on… — Blaise Pascal
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Treating everyone she met like family, and burying needless critism of others so deep beneath the soil of everyday living that only kindness ever saw… — Jason F. Wright
We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. — Hillary Clinton
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is higher and nobler to be kind. — Mark Twain
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose… — Neil Peart
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated… — Arthur Golden
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. — Mignon McLaughlin
There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then,… — W. Somerset Maugham
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi
First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him. — Edward Albee
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency. — Frank Portman
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. — Confucius
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop… — Dalai Lama
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Twain
Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness.… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to… — C.S. Lewis
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance… — Mary Doria Russell
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of… — Henry David Thoreau

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