Top 100 Kindness I Quotes
#2. I choose kindness ... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
Max Lucado
#4. I would rather lose with kindness than win with cruelty.
Debasish Mridha
#5. My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
Vachel Lindsay
#6. The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.
Rose Tremain
#7. It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#8. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:
William Shakespeare
#9. 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
#10. They say practice mindfulness, practice meditation, practice kindness, practice breathing. I found no answers and wanted to practice driving a tank through a department store.
Jon Konrath
#11. In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible ...
Stephen Jay Gould
#12. Okay, I cannot say this without being very direct. If you are looking for a spouse or even a romance through social media, you are looking for trouble.
John Patrick Hickey
#13. Henry glares at him. "I will say this for you. You stick by your man." "I have never had anything from the cardinal other than kindness. Why would I not?
Hilary Mantel
#14. For my father, being kind was natural ... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
David Copperfield
#15. If someone is facing a difficult time, one of the kindest things you can do for him or her is to say, I'm just going to love you through this.
Molly Friedenfeld
#16. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
Sharon Salzberg
#17. I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had.
David Levithan
#18. I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
#19. You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
Jupiter Hammon
#20. 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
#21. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.
Nikki Rowe
#22. When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.
Leonard Sweet
#23. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.
Anne Fortier
#24. And now ... farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
Alexandre Dumas
#25. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
#26. I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness.
Dorothy Dunnett
#27. I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.
Herman Melville
#28. They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list ... their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
Ben Hecht
#29. I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That's because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.
Stevie Wonder
#30. I think the most important manner is just general kindness. When you go to big cities, sometimes people forget to just say, "Good morning," or "How are you?"
Jaime King
#31. When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Antonio Porchia
#32. Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Ellen DeGeneres
#33. We try to be formed and held and kept by him, but instead he offers us freedom. And now when I try to know his will, his kindness floods me, his great love overwhelms me, and I hear him whisper, Surprise me.
Ron Hansen
#34. Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much."
Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.
George Eliot
#35. As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.
Jeffrey Lang
#36. 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
#37. I often find myself grateful for the comfort of strangers; a man who gave up his seat for me on the bus, a woman who helped me out with a heavy shopping bag. Remembering small acts of kindness puts the world in a finer, sweeter order.
Sally Brampton
#38. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
Oprah Winfrey
#39. I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#41. I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair, ...
Ian McEwan
#42. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#43. I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'
George Thorndike Angell
#45. I blew a strand of black hair from my face. "A demon treating another with kindness is something I have yet to see."
"Careful," the demon whispered. "You may have already seen the rough shape and form it takes in this world, and yet you do not recognize it.
Heather Heffner
#46. One guy, seeing that I was hungry, insisted on buying me a huge lunch and when I thanked him for his kindness, he simply said, 'Pass it on.' I liked this selfless concept - repay me by rewarding someone else entirely with a generous dollop of goodwill.
Tony Hawks
#47. I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
Sofia Vergara
#48. It's because of you that I can go to any church and take whatever the service has to offer, all of it up for interpretation except kindness.
Mary-Louise Parker
#49. I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.
Colin Farrell
#50. With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.
Gabrielle Reece
#51. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.
George R R Martin
#52. Suffering is a form of egoism.
I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming portrait (like the one Gide made of Madeleine).
(Yet: everything is true: the sweetness, the energy, the nobility, the kindness.)
Roland Barthes
#53. Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.
- Camille Preaker
Gillian Flynn
#54. 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
#55. Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.
M.F. Moonzajer
#56. I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.
Emily Bronte
#57. For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
Natalie Merchant
#58. There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
Confucius
#59. I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.
Amy Jo Martin
#60. When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.
Krishna Das
#61. How much kindness have I shown Him in the past week? Has my life been a good reflection on His reputation? God is saying
Oswald Chambers
#62. I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have.
Melissa De La Cruz
#63. Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
Cobie Smulders
#64. True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.
Wayne Muller
#65. As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.
Tiffany Madison
#66. Only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you everywhere
like a shadow or a friend.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#67. The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.
Lois W.
#68. Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.
Emily Giffin
#71. If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions has been felt.
Magith Noohukhan
#72. All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
Bell Hooks
#73. First, I'll kill the dog with kindness, and if that doesn't work, I'll just kill him.
Edward Albee
#74. 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
#76. At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yourself to show kindness to your fellow citizens.
Kiera Cass
#77. Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness.
D.H. Lawrence
#78. I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that 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.
William Penn
#79. I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.
Behdad Sami
#80. Kindness takes energy. If I say yes to everything, I don't have energy left to be kind.
Esther Hizsa
#81. I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#82. She placed a hand on my cheek and softly kissed the other one, then whispered, Remember this moment, then, Sage, when someone of my status offered a kindness to someone of yours. Because next time we meet, if Darius is dead, I will no longer be anyone of importance.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#83. I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t'were perjury to love thee now!
Paul Tillich
#84. I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.
Roland Merullo
#85. I hardly know her. It all comes back to the paintings. Her amazing and beautiful talent. Her sincerity. Her kindness. Her feistiness. Her ability to be in my head at all times. Her ability to pull me out of myself and make me see things like I've never seen them before.
Ella Dominguez
#86. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.
Dan Gediman
#87. Love Egoist
What I find really sad is ... his smiles, his kindness ... are inspired by a love potion and they don't really mean anything!
Bisco Hatori
#88. My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.
Wayne Dyer
#89. I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)
J.R.R. Tolkien
#90. It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#91. There was no kindness on Mr. Gray's face. "Unless you have hidden reserves of strength you didn't display on the way down, we cannot carry her and Maura, and I know which one I prefer.
Maggie Stiefvater
#92. 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
#93. You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you."
"Thanks.You're very kind.
Marie Lu
#94. - I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.
- I believe that dreams can become reality.
- I believe in true love.
- I believe in kindness and intelligence.
- I trust life, regardless.
Elysse Poetis
#95. I came here to show you the way to happiness is not through success but through love, compassion, and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#97. also educate myself so I will never have to fight again. I have gained more loyalty through kindness, than I have through brutality. If you choose to act like an animal that is all you will ever be.
Catherine Taylor
#98. I wish I didn't want the exotic man who knows the entire history of jazz, and instead wanted the teacher, who has his flaws but whose kindness is as rare as genius.
Merritt Tierce
#100. I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
