Kindness Quotes

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. View quote
Laozi
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. View quote
Aesop
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. View quote
George Sand
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. View quote
Confucius
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. View quote
Lin Yutang
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. (William Wordsworth)
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. View quote
Scott Adams
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 you. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. View quote
Anita Roddick
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. View quote
Graham Greene
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. (Amy Tan)
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. View quote
Gerald Massey
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. View quote
Og Mandino
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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