Kindness Quotes

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

Robert Solow

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - The rest will be given.

Mother Theresa

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

Author Unknown

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.

Samuel Johnson

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

Anonymous

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.

Prophet Mohammed

Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.

1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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 Delano Roosevelt

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Lao - Tzu

The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched.

Dan Kelly

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Ettiene De Grellet

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Unknown

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.

Dan Kelly

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Kahlil Gibron

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.

Mark Twain

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one - Ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Confucius

Liberty, equality - Bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

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

Aesop

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury.

Steve Pershing

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.

Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw - Hill)

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects