Top 100 Quotes About Kindness
#1. Her fingertips rested on his cheek, like a constellation of unexpected kindness.
Tessa Dare
#2. 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
#3. A Christian brings peace to others. Not only peace, but also love, kindness, faithfulness and joy.
Pope Francis
#4. ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said.
F.B. Newman
#5. Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings.
Sharon Salzberg
#6. LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.
Stephanie Dowrick
#7. 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
#8. In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.
Bryant McGill
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.
Heather Wolf
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
Albert Pike
#23. Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
John McLeod
#24. 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
#25. I would rather lose with kindness than win with cruelty.
Debasish Mridha
#27. You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind.
Rainbow Rowell
#28. Don't worry about what others think about you; worry about what they think of themselves when they're with you.
Hilary Weeks
#29. 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
#30. Everyone comes into your life to fulfill a purpose of their life. So help them with love, kindness, and care.
Debasish Mridha
#31. 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
#32. To fill the world with joy and happiness give the gift of love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#33. 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
#35. When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
Leo Tolstoy
#38. My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
Vachel Lindsay
#39. If you fight cruelty with kindness, it's the kindness that goes away, not the cruelty.
Paul Hoffman
#40. 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
#41. Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
Viggo Mortensen
#42. 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
#43. Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
Dallin H. Oaks
#44. Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.
Sara Paretsky
#45. It's time that Islam should be redefined by the world based upon, the goodness of all the peace-loving Muslims, instead of the theoretical teachings of some books, be it Quran or the Hadith.
Abhijit Naskar
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
John Ruskin
#49. May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Leta B.
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way:
William Shakespeare
#53. 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
#54. Kindness and compassion are sisters but not twins. One you can buy, the other is priceless.
Janet Mock
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart.
Debasish Mridha
#60. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Thomas Merton
#61. 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
#62. Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.
Lauren Tarshis
#63. 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
#64. 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
#66. Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure ... true kindness.
George Sand
#68. In order to free ourselves from our assumptions about love, we must ask ourselves what long-held, often buried assumptions are and then face them, which takes courage, humility, and kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.
Amit Ray
#70. Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.
Then only LOVE remains ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Are you full of the Holy Spirit? Then you will be full of mercy, kindness and love.
Greg Gordon
#77. If only more people lusted to be kind than lusted to be rich, then maybe we could begin to know true wealth.
Charles F. Glassman
#79. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#80. An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi
#81. When the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.
P.C. Cast
#82. Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica
Frank Herbert
#83. 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
#85. A small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference
J. Yates
#86. 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
#87. "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
#88. Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.
Jewel
#89. Be a success but never forget to be kind. Success has no meaning if your heart is empty of kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#90. 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
#91. The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
Perry Brass
#92. Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness.
C.B. Cook
#95. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
Roy Bennett
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#99. We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own.
Alaric Hutchinson
#100. 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
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