Top 100 Quotes About A Kindness
#1. 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
#2. Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope
#3. For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
Sophocles
#4. He that planteth a tree ... provideth a kindness for many generations.
Henry Van Dyke
#5. As far as Jacqs was concerned, he was doing a kindness by not letting Quin get confused about his feelings. Liking someone and not knowing if they liked you back was one of those levels of hell.
The Only Way Out Is In
Lyn Gala
#6. 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
#7. Do not limp before the lame, deeming it a kindness.
Kahlil Gibran
#8. The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald
#10. 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
#11. The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.
Orison Swett Marden
#12. We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.
John O'Donohue
#15. No thanks attach to a kindness long deferred.
Ovid
#16. Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.
Karen Maitland
#17. That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#19. He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
Henry Van Dyke
#20. But there is a kindness here, a complicated kindness. You can see it sometimes in the eyes of people when they look at you and don't know what to say.
Miriam Toews
#21. He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#22. Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
Katherine Center
#23. To confer a kindness is a mark of superiority; to receive one is a mark of subordination . . .
Will Durant
#24. Your impulse to protect me conflicts with my need to protect my self-respect. Sorry. Besides. I have this vaguely uneasy feeling you're offering to protect me from you. That's not doing me a kindness
that's coercion.
Joe Hill
#25. 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
#26. There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley
#27. I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.
George R R Martin
#28. Love is doing a kindness for someone else, not expecting to receive anything in return.
Sylvain Reynard
#29. It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.
Ovid
#30. For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.
Mark Twain
#32. Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
Robert Breault
#33. If there is such a thing as a universal
and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window
it's that there is power in a story. And if someone pays you such a kindness as to make up a tale so you'll enjoy a gingersnap, you go along with that story and enjoy every last bite.
Clare Vanderpool
#34. Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.
Mark Lawrence
#36. He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
#37. But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart.
Sana Krasikov
#38. This dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these oppressors. They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.
Mark Twain
#39. She's like a kindness ninja. Sneaking around in order to help people.
A.S. King
#40. Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.
Martin Seligman
#41. Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
Simon Cowell
#42. 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
#43. When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
Rachel Simmons
#44. How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.
Kentetsu Takamori
#45. The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
Seneca The Younger
#46. Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.
Liza Minnelli
#47. From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.
Robert A. Heinlein
#48. Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?
Idries Shah
#49. A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
Saint Ambrose
#50. I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.
Jilly Cooper
#51. Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness ... I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.
Sophie Blackall
#52. He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin
#53. I lived in an enclave in which our oldest had seen twenty-five years. His face was withered, and his fingers shook when he attempted the smallest tasks. Some whispered it would be a kindness to kill him, but they meant they didn't want to see their futures written in his skin.
Ann Aguirre
#54. So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.
Brendan Gleeson
#55. Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure!
Charles Dickens
#56. Venetia had no guile, and no affectations; she knew the world only by the books she had read; experience had never taught her to doubt the sincerity of anyone who did her a kindness.
Georgette Heyer
#57. We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
Henry David Thoreau
#59. Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or respect for what was in others.
Ben Hecht
#60. Criticism should be received as a kindness (Ps. 141:5).
Douglas Wilson
#61. If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.
Piper Kerman
#62. Let us go on and see little Susan, said Margaret, drawing her companion up a grassy road-way, leading under the shadow of a forest glade. With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#63. Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.
Henry Burton
#64. Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
Mark Twain
#65. This is a kindness, a thing done to another human being for no reason other than compassion. A private, dignified act of basic human decency, which history, being the bastard that it is, will probably neglect to commemorate. You
Alastair Reynolds
#66. My mother had a kindness
that embraced all life.
She knew her place well
and was comfortable in giving everything she had.
This is the tradition of native women.
Dan George
#67. It was a kindness that was hard to understand ... and the most selfishness she's ever shown.
Bisco Hatori
#68. You will walk a long road," said Morozko. "If you have not the courage to meet it, better - far better - for you to die quiet in the snow. Perhaps I meant you a kindness.
Katherine Arden
#69. A kindness is never wasted
Aesop
#70. Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
Seneca The Younger
#71. Gratitude is not a payment for a kindness but another form of gift.
Michael Josephson
#72. He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.
Robert South
#73. For he never thought of doing a kindness, but hounded to death the poor and the needy and the brokenhearted" (Ps. 109:16,
Henry Cloud
#74. A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
Publilius Syrus
#75. To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.
Cassandra Clare
#76. Her fingertips rested on his cheek, like a constellation of unexpected kindness.
Tessa Dare
#77. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.
Pope Francis
#79. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
#80. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.
C.S. Lewis
#81. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
#82. Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
John McLeod
#83. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.
Heather Stang
#84. Everyone comes into your life to fulfill a purpose of their life. So help them with love, kindness, and care.
Debasish Mridha
#85. 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
#87. Well, we're originally from Glace Bay."
Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. "Tell me all about it, dear.
Beatrice Rose Roberts
#88. Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
Dallin H. Oaks
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.
Lauren Tarshis
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. A small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference
J. Yates
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