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QUOTES ON KINDNESS

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

AESOP, The Lion and the Mouse

Kindness begets kindness evermore.

SOPHOCLES, Ajax

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

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, 2005

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

TALMUD

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.

HONORE DE BALZAC, Le Siècle

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

CHARLES SPURGEON, Baptismal Regeneration

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

EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine

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

Real kindness seeks no return.

TIRUVALLUVAR, Tirukkural

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

ERIC HOFFER, Power Quotes to Energize Your Life

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Emile

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

ALBERT SCHWEITZER, Michael Ruge's Quote-a-Quote

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988

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

GRAHAM GREENE, The Captain and the Enemy

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

KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam

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

JULIA CARNEY, Little Things


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