Kindness Is Quotes

#1. Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#2. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

Bryant McGill

#3. Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Julian Baggini

#4. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!

Anne Frank

#5. Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. 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

#7. Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

Pema Chodron

#8. Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other.

Mother Teresa

#9. Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Dave Matthews

#10. The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

#11. Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy.

Alistair Begg

#12. When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Frederick Greenwood

#14. My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Vachel Lindsay

#15. With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

Joko Beck

#16. Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.

Dallin H. Oaks

#17. My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion ... This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

David Gemmell

#18. If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

Betty Eadie

#19. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:

William Shakespeare

#20. 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

#21. Kindness and compassion are sisters but not twins. One you can buy, the other is priceless.

Janet Mock

#22. In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#23. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Mother Teresa

#24. Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Thomas Merton

#26. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

Maggie O'Farrell

#27. This is not a letter but my arms about you for a brief moment.

Katherine Mansfield

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. "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

#31. Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#32. the preferable way to treat one another is with love and kindness; that pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity; and that somehow, as human beings, we are all connected spiritually.

Christopher Moore

#33. The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

Perry Brass

#34. Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge.

Debasish Mridha

#36. He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

Seneca The Younger

#37. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#38. Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.

John Patrick Hickey

#39. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.

Kemi Sogunle

#40. The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

Gautama Buddha

#41. Kindness is not an act, it's a lifestyle.

Anthony Douglas

#42. Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.

Polly Horvath

#43. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.[*] 7 He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with the blood of his Son and forgave our sins. 8 He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

Anonymous

#44. 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

#45. Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#46. Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.

Shannon L. Alder

#47. If a man says that it is right to give every one his due, and therefore thinks within his own mind that injury is due from a just man to his enemies but kindness to his friends, he was not wise who said so, for he spoke not the truth, for in no case has it appeared to be just to injure any one.

Plato

#48. The malicious humor of men, though perverse and refractory, is not so savage and invincible but it may be wrought upon by kindness, and altered by repeated obligations.

Plutarch

#49. your character is the sum total of your habits. You can't claim to be kind unless you are habitually kind - you show kindness without even thinking about it. You can't claim to have integrity unless it is your habit to always be honest.

Rick Warren

#50. 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

#51. When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

Leonard Sweet

#52. A graceful heart is a virtue of the meek.

Suzy Kassem

#53. We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#54. Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs.

Octave Feuillet

#55. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Norman Vincent Peale

#56. It is the little act of kindness that touches our heart and blossom our life with gladness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#57. A small unkindness is a great offence.

Hannah More

#58. Life is a gift, so appreciate it.
Love is abundant, so share it.
Enthusiasm is infectious, so spread it.
Kindness is divine, so embody it.
Peace is the only way, so embrace it.
The earth is your home, so take care of it.
Life is for happiness, so enjoy it.

Debasish Mridha

#59. Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#60. I have learned,' said Lymond, 'that kindness without love is no kindness.

Dorothy Dunnett

#61. My faith is stong enough to endure, kind enough to feel, big enough to accommodate.

Debasish Mridha

#62. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

Phillip Moffitt

#63. It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#64. Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.

Aeschylus

#65. The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Samuel Smiles

#66. The most powerful force that can transform an enemy into a friend is simple kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#67. 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

#68. When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

Antonio Porchia

#69. Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Alexander Pope

#70. Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#72. 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

#73. Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Helen Keller

#74. Kindness is the sign of strength and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#75. My life's message is my kindness and love.

Debasish Mridha

#76. Home cooking is the true embodiment of love. It makes us show patience, kindness, humility, hope, and perseverance.

Agus Ekanurdi

#77. It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#78. In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.

George Eliot

#79. What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

Deanna Raybourn

#80. For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis Of Assisi

#81. It is not kindness to tell patients that need strong medicine that nothing serious is wrong with them.

Cornelius Van Til

#82. Life is so transient and ephemeral; we will not be here after a breath. So think better, think deeply, think with kindness, and write it with love so that it may live a little longer.

Debasish Mridha

#83. The secret to happiness is complaining very little.

Nikki Rowe

#84. Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness ... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. Kindess is a mirror which reflects the beauty of the heart.

Debasish Mridha

#86. You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

Gautama Buddha

#87. No matter the problem, kindness is always the right response.

L.R. Knost

#88. Caring is going to the ends of the world for a stranger.

Bernard Levine

#89. 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

#90. The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

#91. Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Charles Sturt

#92. 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

#93. Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

Phyllis McGinley

#94. Education ... is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning, ... by praise, but above all
by example.

John Ruskin

#95. A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#96. Sleep on it until your thoughts are rational and your tongue is capable of speaking only kindness and truth.

Toni Sorenson

#97. Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

Lewis B. Smedes

#98. Sometimes all it takes is a kind person to take you by the hand, hold you tightly, and gently whisper, Everything's going to be all right.

Charles F. Glassman

#99. In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.

Ivor Gurney

#100. There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Hosea Ballou