Kindness Quotes

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

— Plato

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

— Voltaire

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

— Charles Dickens

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”

— Lao Tzu

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others; and if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

— Dalai Lama

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

— William Shakespeare

“We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”

— Mother Teresa

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

— Lao Tzu

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.”

— Johannes Brahms

“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.”

— John Dickerson

“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”

— Arthur Ashe

“Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”

— Robert Kennedy

“Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.”

— Amelia Barr

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.”

— Mother Teresa

“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.”

— John Erskine

“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

— Charlotte Brontë

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

— Albert Pike

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”

— Jim Rohn

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

“Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see; that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.”

— Alexander Pope

“Only the brave know how to forgive; a coward never forgave. It is not in his nature.”

— Laurence Sterne

“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”

— Charles Dickens

“Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human; the latter is divine.”

— Hosea Ballou

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

— Immanuel Kant

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

— Anne Frank

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

— Confucius

“Never be haughty to the humble, or humble to the haughty.”

— Jefferson Davis

“It is another's fault if he be ungrateful; but it is mine if I do not give to find one thankful man. I will oblige a great many that are not so.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Teach us to give and not to count the cost.”

— Saint Ignatius

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Courageous people do not fear forgiving for the sake of peace.”

— Nelson Mandela

“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“If you treat people right, they will treat you right ninety percent of the time.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

— Lewis Carroll

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

— Victor Hugo

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

— Charles Dickens

“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”

— Thomas Fuller

“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbors.”

— Richard Whately

“A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.”

— Saint Teresa of Avila

“It is much easier to show compassion to animals; they are never wicked.”

— Haile Selassie

“Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.”

— George Santayana

“People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.”

— John C. Maxwell

“As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

— Albert Camus

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

— Winston Churchill

“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

— Thomas Paine

“When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.”

— Max Beerbohm

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

— Charles Bukowski

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behoves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.”

— James Truslow Adams

“Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”

— jewel

“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

— Helen Keller

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

— Desmond Tutu

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

— King George VI

“If you can help others, if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.”

— Dalai Lama

“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”

— Mark Twain

“But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”

— Mark Twain

“I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.”

— Kirsty Gallacher

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

— Buddha

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

— Jane Austen

“Civility costs nothing and buys everything.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

— William Wordsworth

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

— Dalai Lama

“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”

— Charles Dickens

“Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

— Isaac Newton

“A true man hates no one.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”

— William Hazlitt

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”

— Izaak Walton

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help. The only ones.”

— John Steinbeck

“Kind words do not cost much, yet they accomplish much.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“All kids need is a little help, a little hope, and somebody who believes in them.”

— Magic Johnson

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

— Aesop

“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”

— Jane Austen

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”

— Jackie Robinson

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

— Aesop

“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”

— Hippocrates

“I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do; and for the people who like country music, denigrate means put down.”

— Bob Newhart

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

— Anne Frank

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”

— Suzanne Somers

“Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.”

— Athenaeus

“What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?”

— George Eliot

“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”

— Homer

“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift that only we can give one another.”

— Elie Wiesel

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.”

— Whoopi Goldberg

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

— Josh Billings

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

— Emily Dickinson

“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”

— Dalai Lama

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”

— D. Elton Trueblood

“Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

— J.K. Rowling

“A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.”

— James Monroe

“Remember, there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”

— Scott Adams

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

— Dalai Lama

“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

“Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”

— Earl Nightingale

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

— Booker T. Washington

“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.”

— Douglas Adams

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Peace begins with a smile.”

— Mother Teresa

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

“When strong, be merciful; if you would have the respect, not the fear, of your neighbors.”

— Chilon

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”

— William Arthur Ward

“Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.”

— Gertrude Stein

“If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”

— Confucius

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

— Thomas Fuller

“That best portion of a man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

— William Wordsworth

“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”

— Samuel Johnson

“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”

— William Arthur Ward

“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”

— Gertrude Stein

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”

— William Arthur Ward

“It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.”

— William Wilberforce

“When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.”

— Confucius

“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.”

— Democritus

“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.”

— Diogenes

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”

— Audre Lorde

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Those who do not complain are never pitied.”

— Jane Austen

“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.”

— Blaise Pascal

“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.”

— Indira Gandhi

“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.”

— Clarence Thomas

“Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“To be social is to be forgiving.”

— Robert Frost

“Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.”

— Mother Teresa

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”

— Tom Peters

“People first, then money, then things.”

— Suze Orman

“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”

— William Wordsworth

“Let my soul smile through my heart, and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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