Kindness Quotes

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

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

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Kindness suits you." "Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

My message is always the same: to cultivate and practice love, kindness, compassion and tolerance.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

As we arise each morning, let us determine to respond with love and kindness to whatever might come our way.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

Marriage was ordained for a remedy and to increase the world and for the man to help the woman and the woman the man, with all love and kindness.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any kind.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.