Top 100 Quotes About Kindness
#1. In essence, we are deeper than being; we are character, which contains the conscious forces of love, justice, kindness, faith, and forgiveness.
Garey Gordon
#2. For it will come to pass that even the most corrupt of our rich men will finally be ashamed of his riches before the poor man, and the poor man, seeing his humility, will understand and yield to him in joy, and will respond with kindness to his gracious shame.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#3. Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
Honore De Balzac
#4. I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.
Rebecca Wells
#5. Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
John McGraw
#6. I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
Jack Kerouac
#8. The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause ... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.
Tara Brach
#9. I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
M. Scott Peck
#11. It wasn't because they had extraordinary powers, really, but because of how well they used the ordinary powers everyone had: the power of courage, the power of kindness, the powers of curiosity and knowledge.
Jeanne DuPrau
#12. Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
Seneca The Younger
#13. I think I am more prone to mistrust kindness than something that is obviously bad.
Chelsea Ballinger
#14. I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness
since I am always so bowled over by it
and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
Dawn Powell
#15. Think before you speak. Don't be an asshole. Show kindness when it's warranted and walk away when it costs you more than you're willing to give. Don't be an ATM that people can take from but never deposit into. Be a depositor. And always, always give your best only to those that deserve it.
Amber L. Johnson
#16. Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own.
Libba Bray
#17. With love and kindness, grow peace in your mind and then spread it with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#18. The Buddha's criteria for Wise Speech include - in addition to the obvious expectation that speech be truthful - that it be timely, gentle, motivated by kindness, and helpful.
Sylvia Boorstein
#19. The best of the houses is the house where an orphan gets love and kindness.
Anonymous
#20. Kind thoughts increase the flow of vital energy into your body and mind. Do kind acts now. Do not procrastinate. Kindness is like a healing balm. It soothes suffering ... Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. Even so, little acts of kindness make an ocean of goodwill.
Sivananda
#21. I am neither moral or immoral. I am amoral, and I express it through my kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#22. Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path
Abdu'l- Baha
#23. To change a person's feelings show him unexpected kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#24. . 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
#26. The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.
David Levithan
#27. I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
Mary Shelley
#28. Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think
Boonaa Mohammed
#29. It was not the scorn of the many that left her confused and vulnerable, but the kindness of the few.
George R R Martin
#30. Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. Our problems are not solved by physical force, by hatred, by warOur problems are solved by loving kindness by gentleness, by joy
Gautama Buddha
#32. Was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it caressed in their gaze.'
R.J. Palacio
#34. Kindness is the music that softens every heart and fills it with ineffable joy.
Debasish Mridha
#35. The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
Derren Brown
#36. I believe that yoga should lead us to a place where kindness and compassion are instantaneous.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#37. For those moments, life is worth living. Moments of kindness, caring, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#38. 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
#39. You know, L, I'm feeling overwhelmed by your kindness and charm."
"I try to leash the potency of the charm but it's too exhaustin'.
Samantha Young
#40. I believe that some of us who were kept by God a long while before we found Him love Him better perhaps than we should have done if we had received Him directly, and we can preach better to others - we can speak more of His loving-kindness and tender mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
#41. Good relationships require kindness, commitment, and appreciation.
Jane Green
#42. Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
#43. Wounds are the fertile ground where flowers of kindness and wisdom will grow and thrive.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Let love flow out of you in big and small acts of kindness. Love is kindness with its work clothes on.
Annette Vaillancourt
#45. The object is to keep busy being something ... as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.
Richard Nelson Bolles
#46. There's something in the act of setting out that renews me, that fills me with a feeling of possibility. On the road, I'm forced to rely on instinct and intuition, on the kindness of strangers, in ways that illuminate who I am, ways that shed light on my motivations, my fears.
Andrew McCarthy
#47. Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and
thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.
Ray Bradbury
#48. Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around
Penn Jillette
#49. Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
Shannon L. Alder
#50. Goal-oriented actions bring success but actions with love and kindness bring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#51. A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance ...
Jack Kornfield
#52. The best opportunities to be nice to others come in the face of adversity. Kindness wins. Reciprocity rules.
David Chiles
#53. All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.
Joy Harjo
#54. Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Ann Landers
#57. In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.
George Ade
#58. Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.
Ken Wahl
#59. I know most people want others to have good lives, and, when they understand the situation, they will do what they can to steer the world back toward kindness. This is when human beings, I believe, are most admirable.
Daoud Hari
#60. I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion.
Debasish Mridha
#61. When you see suffering and sadness, to heal them the least we can offer is our love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#62. After years of living with the coldest realities I still believe that one reaps what one sows and that to sow kindness is the best of all investments.
Joseph William Martin Jr.
#64. Love is the giving from the heart
Without expecting any return.
Love is the sharing the beauty of life
Without expecting any charm or joy
Love is the caring with kindness
Without knowing caring is the joy.
Debasish Mridha
#65. When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.
Jodi Picoult
#66. Humility makes us more friendly
Happiness makes us more lively.
Love makes us more caring
Dream makes us more daring.
Trust makes us more forgiving
Kindness makes us more loving.
Hope gives us the joy of dreaming
Peace gives us the joy of living.
Debasish Mridha
#67. Let us kill each other with love and kindness - not with hatred and guns.
Debasish Mridha
#68. How to care for intimate apparel? Treat your bras like you'd want a partner to handle your breasts: with kindness and a gentle touch.
Elisabeth Dale
#69. He seems indeed to have been a man of exceptional kindness and amiability,
George Santayana
#70. Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#71. The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
Sri Chinmoy
#72. Change your inner thoughts to the higher frequencies of love, harmony, kindness, peace, and joy, and you'll attract more of the same.
Wayne Dyer
#73. Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#74. I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.
Mary-Louise Parker
#75. A heart is a bird which can only hear the song of kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others - forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let
Andrew Murray
#77. I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.
Gerald Stern
#78. The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#79. Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
Mary Pipher
#81. The rainbow across the sky after a storm confirms Your kindness and Your forgiving heart.
Euginia Herlihy
#82. The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of men. Often to find real sympathy you must go to those who know what misery means.
Clarence Darrow
#83. Tears will not fill your stomach; Tears will not bring kindness. If you have time to shed tears, laugh; someone will be willing to look at a hearty smile more then a tear soaked sponge.
Reiko Saibara
#84. Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#86. We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.
Sharon Salzberg
#88. His expression went cold and dark as he came within inches from her, towering over her small frame. His voice was calm but stern. "Let me be clear before we begin our working relationship. I am not kind nor do I, or will I ever, offer anything out of sheer kindness.
Madison Thorne Grey
#89. I believe in music and gin and joy and talking too much and human kindness.
Caitlin Moran
#90. Kindness, compassion, and sympathy are the nourishment for humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Sam smiled, his brown eyes turning golden in the dawn. It was such a Sam look, the twinkle of mischief, the hint of exasperation, the kindness that would always, always make him a better person than she was.
Sarah J. Maas
#92. Win the heart with love and win the hate with kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#93. I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll
#94. By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.
Dalai Lama
#95. I can and will improve the world.
I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.
I refuse to be unhappy.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#96. The power of intention manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love, and beauty.
Wayne Dyer
#97. He gazed at me with kindness and pity. "To remain silent in the face of evil is itself a form of evil." I turned
Sue Monk Kidd
#98. If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
#100. He'd chosen his weapon well: only the truth, untempered by kindness.
Maggie Stiefvater
