Top 34 Dog Kindness Quotes
#1. People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.
Kinky Friedman
#2. Even when we're standing at the scariest precipice ever, our soul still cries out for joy.
Sue Fitzmaurice
#3. In this world we must try to be kind to one another.
Heather Wolf
#4. A dog has the soul of a philosopher.
Plato
#5. All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
Freya Stark
#6. My expectations of what I wanted in a man I learned from a dog: loyalty and kindness.
Alice Hoffman
#8. Just one act of kindness can change someone's whole world.
Heather Wolf
#9. Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include ... well, EVERYTHING.
George Saunders
#10. With just a little drop of kindness you can water a whole garden.
Heather Wolf
#11. The Friends Thou Hast
And Their Adoption Tried
Grapple Them To Thy Soul
With Hooks Of Steel
William Shakespeare
#12. A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.
J.R. Ackerley
#13. It was, if you like, an oasis in the general desert of childish and adult ignorance where we could safely bring out our thoughts and not have them denigrated, laughed at, or trampled upon, even when they deserved it. A place like that is precious.
Alexei Panshin
#14. Because the Lord hears their cries and feels your deep compassion for them, He has from the beginning of time provided ways for His disciples to help. He has invited His children to consecrate their time, their means, and themselves to join with Him in serving others.
Henry B. Eyring
#15. I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.
Cesar Chavez
#16. I was always the quiet one, the one who followed suit, doing what others told me to do.
Jettie Woodruff
#17. Finally coming to terms with Fathers Day. I blow as a Dad. I get it. No, I'm not an evil, abusive Father, it's just that while all my intentions and thoughts have been out of love for my kids, my actions and behaviour never measured up.
Geoffrey Hill
#18. Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.
Edward Said
#19. I found my spirit wanted to choose between only two things - suicide, or the dreams I'd had in my youth. I am an old fool who borrowed the dreams of a young fool.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. Be kind. Be kind to others, be kind to animals, be kind to yourself. Smile at the mailman, pet your dog, buy yourself an ice cream cone. Spreading kindness in this world is the noblest thing a person can do.
Shenita Etwaroo
#21. First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Edward Albee
#22. The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
#23. Practice loving kindness wherever you may go.
Heather Wolf
#24. You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.
Ashin Wirathu
#25. The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls
Dean Koontz
#26. Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
John B. S. Haldane
#29. One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport
#30. We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live
Howard Gardner
#31. Everybody oughta have a dog," he said thoughtfully, his hand still scratching Beau. "Dogs teach you love and kindness. They remind you what's important." He nodded and took a sip of his coffee. "A life ain't much of a life without a dog in it, s'what I always said.
Dan Gemeinhart
#32. The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
James Madison
#33. A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom.
Toni Maguire
#34. A dog is the best philosopher because he knows what you want and gives you that with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha