Friendship And Kindness Quotes

#1. Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

John Locke

#2. Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness. - Carline

Raymond E. Feist

#3. This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Tilda Swinton

#4. Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

Sharon Salzberg

#5. People will not remember what you did for living,
they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving.

Debasish Mridha

#6. A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

Goswami Kriyananda

#8. Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.

Deborah Day

#9. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

Epictetus

#10. Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward. Separate from them and the result of your action will be a life of success.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#11. Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

R.J. Palacio

#12. Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

Sallust

#13. And although I appreciated their kindness more than they would ever know, it's a fact that friends last longer the less you use them.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. For what I received, I would like to show you my gratitude. For your love, kindness, and friendship, I thank you.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kindness of a captain is predicated on the obedience and efficiency of his underlings.

Sara Sheridan

#16. They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

Saint Basil

#17. You are about to enter the realms of human beings. Be prepared for cruelty and kindness, for friendship and hatred. People are made of all possibilities and conditions.

Stuart Hill

#18. We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Dean Koontz

#19. So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

Renata Bowers

#20. Love makes me incredible to enter in the new life and smile makes me happier in my life, Science teaches to think but love teaches to smile. I love to be a part of your life when I am depressed there is only smile & kindness that attracts me.#Love#Dimple:p

Avinash Advani

#21. On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, "I'm awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless." And then you grinned at me and said, "That's okay.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.

Charlotte Eriksson

#23. Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

Mary Pipher

#24. The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#25. Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

Ann Landers

#26. Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Charlotte Eriksson

#27. In order to achieve peace, tranquility, and real friendship, we must minimize anger and cultivate kindness and a warm heart.

Dalai Lama XIV

#28. The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#29. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

Catherine Lacey

#30. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.

Ian McEwan

#31. Puck shook her head ruefully. "We haven't even solved the first problem, and I'm worrying about the next one. I must be an idiot."
"No," Hush said, wiggling an impossible finger at her. "Only kindness. Very much kindness.

Annette Curtis Klause

#32. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!

Calvin Coolidge

#33. If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Stephen King

#34. When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.

Criss Jami

#35. He was everything I needed because his entire character had been molded by my deepest wants and desires. He was my rock when I cried, my playmate when I laughed, and my hero when I needed to imagine that one existed for me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love

Gordon B. Hinckley

#37. Win hatred with love, enemies with friendship, and cruelty with kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#38. My story has more than a "great white hope" plot. I loved and respected Tom because he was a servant of God who happened to be white, just as I feel I am a servant of God who happens to be black and from Africa.

Francis Mandewah

#39. She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that's the best you can do with people. I'd tried kindness. I'd tried friendship. I'd tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#40. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more ...

Banana Yoshimoto

#41. You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.

Renata Bowers

#42. On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.

George Eliot

#43. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Basil The Great

#44. But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#45. Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.

L.M. Fields

#46. You knew me before I made my millions, and you were nice to me when you didn't have to be. That's the kind of person I want in my corner.

Kelly Moran

#47. Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Albert Camus

#48. May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

Truth Devour

#49. Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#50. Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.

Deborah Day

#51. How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

Thomas S. Monson

#52. You will never develop courage if you don't stand in the middle of the battle afraid and pick up the sword anyways, to defend what is right. You might feel like you are outnumbered, but heroes always are.

Shannon L. Alder