Top 100 Good Kindness Quotes
#1. . A terrible battle between two wolves. One wolf is bad - pride, jealousy, greed. The other wolf is good - kindness, hope, truth. The child asks, 'Who will win?' The grandfather answers simply, 'The one you feed.
Tristan Bancks
#2. "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
#3. Doing the good deeds is like the grass in the garden. You don't see its growth. But, it does by days. Doing the wicked deeds is like the hone. You don't see its damage. But, it does by days.
Gautama Buddha
#4. The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
Dalai Lama XIV
#5. I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.
Nahoko Uehashi
#8. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.
Paul Bloom
#9. Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
Natalia Ginzburg
#10. There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
Greg M. Epstein
#11. Wouldn't this old world be better
If the folks we meet would say:
'I know something good about you,'
And then treat us that way?
N. Eldon Tanner
#12. Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#13. No kindness is ever wasted, nor can we ever tell how much good may come of it.
Nancy Farmer
#14. 8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?
Anonymous
#15. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
#16. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#17. Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
Orison Swett Marden
#18. You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers.
Sanober Khan
#19. No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. 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
#20. Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.
John Patrick Hickey
#21. As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#22. We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Joseph Joubert
#23. Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
Princess Diana
#24. Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#25. A good story is always written with the tears of tragedies and triumphs, and the love and kindness of our lives.
Debasish Mridha
#26. The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
Criss Jami
#27. There's a little known virtue called magnificence: an unostentatious liberality of expenditure in doing good. You would deny me the practice of it. Mierda! I should have left you on the comet.
Julian May
#28. Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense of justice. Being a bad person has more to do with a lack of regard for others and an inability to control one's appetites.
Paul Bloom
#29. When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness.
Gary Blair
#30. She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.
Emily Gould
#31. The Lord does not require us to wear a [cassock] - He wants us to be good and kind.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#32. For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age.
Stewart O'Nan
#33. 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
#34. Sometimes kindness doesn't beget anything but misery. My mother didn't have to learn that until she was in her thirties; I've known it nearly all my life. I'm not sure which of us is better off.
Jessica Warman
#35. It feels really good to be kind. Unless, someone uses your kindness to take advantage of you, then it feels really bad.
Charles F. Glassman
#36. the exacting memory of childhood can discover no flaw - nothing but kindness, gaiety, and good sense.
C.S. Lewis
#37. True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.
Henry Ward Beecher
#38. A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
#39. Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.
Edward Hoagland
#40. Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.
Laurence Overmire
#41. Be nice. Be good. Be happy.
If people everywhere were to keep to this simple creed, there'd be few problems left in the world to fret about.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#42. There is no religion without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell
#43. But remember that good intentions pave many roads. Not all of them lead to hell.
Neal Shusterman
#44. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
#46. Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.
Dalai Lama
#47. Patience. Kindness. Generosity. Humility. Courtesy. Unselfishness. Good temper. Guilelessness. Sincerity.
Paulo Coelho
#48. It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
George Santayana
#51. He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.
George Eliot
#52. Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn't warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided you with their mercilessness.
Heather Topham Wood
#53. A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.
Nicolas Chamfort
#54. You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
Blaise Pascal
#56. Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else
Gautama Buddha
#58. When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.
Sharon Salzberg
#59. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.
John Ruskin
#60. Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger; would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided; sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.
Steve Goodier
#61. What will I do when you're gone?" said Alasdair, with a faltering voice.
Bryeison placed a hand on his shoulder and said, with raging tranquility, "Do what is good and what is right.
Michelle Franklin
#62. That which is good for all and any one,
For whomsoever- that is good for me ...
What I hold good for self, I should for all.
Only Law Universal is true law.
Zoroaster
#63. The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour
Hugh Massingberd
#65. Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of ... you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.
Joanna Newsom
#66. A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Walter Savage Landor
#67. Higher states of consciousness correlate strongly with attributes like compassion, forgiveness, generosity and kindness. The more one is self-aware and other-aware, and the greater one's connection with the spiritual, the more likely one will be a force for good in our world.
Philip Chard
#71. A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
Anuj
#72. Choose to be good and kind and tolerant regardless of the situation or who's involved, because life is more a matter of developing character than of dishing out just rewards.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#73. It's very important when making a friend to check and see if they have a private plane. People think a good personality trait in a friend is kindness or a sense of humor. No, in a friend a good personality trait is a Gulfstream.
Fran Lebowitz
#74. Research has shown that we automatically assign to good-looking individuals such favorable traits as talent, kindness, honesty, and intelligence (for a review of this evidence, see Langlois et al., 2000).
Robert B. Cialdini
#75. Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you
Thiruvalluvar
#76. Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you.
Rhonda Byrne
#78. Bad stuff happens, people are mean, there are no steps you can take that ensure the world leaves you alone. All you can do is try not to be one of those people who contributes to the bad.
Holly Bourne
#80. Our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.
Emm Cole
#81. Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.
Jack H. Goaslind
#82. Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be
Kenji Miyazawa
#83. If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
Max Heindel
#84. The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth
#85. But it's no good preaching to a grief-stricken soul. And it can actually cause much harm. God is long-suffering in His patience, however, and infinite in His kindness,
Siri Mitchell
#87. Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
Bryant McGill
#88. Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#89. but he did not change his purpose, nor did the universe invite him to change. It accepted the choice; no more preventing him than it prevents a child playing with fire or a fool destroying his love. It has not our kindness or our decency; if it is good, its goodness is of another kind than ours.
Charles Williams
#90. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#91. He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8
Anonymous
#92. The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need will come back to you some day, for humanity's a circle in deed.
Robert Alan Aurthur
#93. We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#94. You become good at what you practise, basketball, anger or compassion, it is up to you!
Kamon
#95. We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.
Amit Ray
#96. You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
For those who limp go not backwards.
But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
Kahlil Gibran
#98. How would your life be different if ... You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day ... You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.
Steve Maraboli
#99. You know, Ava, it's good to be smart, but kindness is more important.
Anita Diamant
#100. Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
Gen Urobuchi
