353 Kindness Quotes

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

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

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

In this dim world of clouding cares, We rarely know, till wildered eyes See white wings lessening up the skies, The angels with us unawares.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

Be of the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving your fellow creatures and drawing them near to the Law.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

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

To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

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

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight - Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

The world's become a little too mean.

Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet.

He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.

In Who-ville they say That the Grinch's small heart Grew three sizes that day!

So many gods, so many creeds; So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer, Of courage and success, to friend and stranger. And from a thousand sources, far and near, Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,' As it hurried down the hill. 'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

'I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

'America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.

He didn't want to say anything bad about anyone. Ford had only one major fault - he was too nice a guy.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Heath has touched so many people on so many different levels during his short life but few had the pleasure of truly knowing him. He was a down to earth, generous, kind-hearted, life-loving, unselfish individual who was extremely inspirational to many.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money...

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

Don Wilson: Because I had to give him mine.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Be helpful, even if it compromises you.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.

Cultivo una rosa blanca En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni ortiga cultivo, Cultivo una rosa blanca.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

'Money! Money in Oz!' cried the Tin Woodman. 'What a queer idea! Did you suppose we are so vulgar as to use money here?' 'Why not?' asked the shaggy man. 'If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world,' declared the Tin Woodman. 'Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.' 'Good!' cried the shaggy man, greatly pleased to hear this. 'I also despise money - a man in Butterfield owes me fifteen cents, and I will not take it from him. The Land of Oz is surely the most favored land in all the world, and its people the happiest. I should like to live here always.'

'We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways - because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong. Ozma thinks that one who has committed a fault did so because he was not strong and brave; therefore she puts him in prison to make him strong and brave. When that is accomplished he is no longer a prisoner, but a good and loyal citizen and everyone is glad that he is now strong enough to resist doing wrong. You see, it is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.'

Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? - This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, - but nothing to this. - For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.

Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.

People have their reasons for giving rides, all of them different. Maybe they hitched a lot when they were younger and now they're settled and comfortable they want to put back what they took out. Like a circular thing. Maybe they have charitable natures. Or maybe they're just lonely and want a little conversation.

He was born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone along the way.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Good people all, with one acord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word - From those who spoke her praise.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

Even children followed with endearing wile, And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

'Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold'

Though never for an instant faltering in my opinion that Augustus Fink-Nottle was Nature's final word in cloth-headed guffins, I liked the man, wished him well.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

Call me infidel, call me atheist, call me what you will, I intend so to treat my children, that they can come to my grave and truthfully say: 'He who sleeps here never gave us a moment of pain. From his lips, now dust, never came to us an unkind word.'

Give your sons and daughters every advantage within your power. In the air of kindness they will grow about you like flowers. They will fill your homes with sunshine and all your years with joy. Do not try to rule by force. A blow from a parent leaves a scar on the soul.

I tell you God cannot afford to damn a man in the next world who has made a happy family in this. God cannot afford to cast over the battlements of heaven the man who has a happy home upon this earth. God cannot afford to be unpitying to a human heart capable of pity. God cannot clothe with fire the man who has clothed the naked here; and God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-men.

I tell you the children have the same rights that we have, and we ought to treat them as though they were human beings. They should be reared with love, with kindness, with tenderness, and not with brutality. That is my idea of children.

Kindness is the sunshine in which the virtues grow.

The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den only fit for wild beasts. That is my doctrine! You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody. Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world; and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to borrower and lender both.