KINDNESS QUOTES

quotations about kindness

Kindness quote

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

J. M. BARRIE

The Little White Bird


Kindness is the touch of heaven, a reminder of the covenant of the unseen.

MARK ANTHONY

The Way Through


Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.

JAMES L. GORDON

The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917


Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.

JEREMY BENTHAM

Deontology; or, The Science of Morality, from the MSS. of J. Bentham

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Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

A Daughter of Eve

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Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life


Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.

MUHAMMAD

attributed, Al-Islam


A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

AMELIA EARHART

Magic City Morning Star, Jun. 1, Magic City Morning Star, Jun. 1, 2005


I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

A Streetcar Named Desire


If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

FRANCIS BACON

Essays


Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.

JEAN MAALOUF

The Healing Power of Kindness


Kindness is a distemper which is soon cured by experience.

ABRAHAM MILLER

Unmoral Maxims


Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

TALMUD


Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making less effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.

PIERO FERRUCCI

The Power of Kindness


Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts


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

AESOP

The Lion and the Mouse


Real kindness seeks no return.

TIRUVALLUVAR

Tirukkural


Any good ... that I can do or any kindness 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.

STEPHEN GRELLET

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations


As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

RAY BRADBURY

Fahrenheit 451

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

ERIC HOFFER

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