Kindness Quotes

2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors

It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake… — Ayn Rand
She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being. — Debbie Macomber
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs. — Richard Paul Evans
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries. — Kathryn Stockett
That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly… — Marilynne Robinson
Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu… — Confucius
Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and… — Dean Koontz
We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so… — Natsuki Takaya
They say talk is cheap. Maybe so. But kindness is even better—it's free! Free to give. Free to receive. Makes you wonder why there's not… — Jerry Spinelli
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. — Gretchen Rubin
I was about to look away when he reached across the seat, touched my jaw with his long, strong, beautiful fingers, and caressed my face.… — Karen Marie Moning
...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness. — Barbara Kingsolver
Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness,… — Laura Whitcomb
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. — C.S. Lewis
It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in… — Mother Teresa
Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against… — Cesar Chavez
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. — Rebecca West
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. — Virginia Woolf
I don’t want your lying kindness. Sure, you’ll smile and be so sweet to me that I’ll trust you, but the minute I don’t give… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. — Dante Alighieri
Wonderful," Garan grumbled when he'd gone. "We'll grow a reputation for our kindness to lawbreakers. — Kristin Cashore
Then he will be called Acheron for the River of Woe. Like the river of the Underworld, his journey shall be dark, long and enduring.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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