Kindness Quotes

I'd thought once, actually, of taking your mind, if you asked. I'd thought I could help you fall asleep at night.He opened his mouth to say something. Shut it again. His face closed for a moment, his unreadable mask falling into place. He spoke softly. But that wouldn't be fair; for after I slept you'd be left awake, with no one to help you sleep.

~ Kristin Cashore

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

~ Gautama Buddha

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can'tuntil you do understand.

~ Kim Harrison

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

~ Wendy Mass

I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

~ William Shakespeare

When we treat people merely as they are, they will remain as they are. When we treat them as if they were what they should be, they will become what they should be.

~ Thomas S. Monson

For it is in giving that we receive.

~ Francis Of Assisi

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

~ Dante Alighieri

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

~ Natsuki Takaya

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.

~ Bob Anderson

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

~ Gretchen Rubin

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

~ Anne Lamott

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

~ J.m. Coetzee

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

~ Oscar Wilde

Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

~ Alice Munro

A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

~ Og Mandino

And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

~ Rosamund Hodge

Because I haven't yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.

~ Caitlin Moran

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

~ Ana Monnar

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

~ Catherine Ryan Hyde

Christ came to be Father's compassion to the world. Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

~ Mother Teresa

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

~ Judith Martin

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.

~ Dean Koontz

Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.

~ Lewis Richmond

Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

~ Richard Carlson

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

~ Anne Lamott

Remember!--It is Christianity to do good always--even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbours as ourself, and to do to all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, and never make a boast of them or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes, and enable us to live and die in peace.

~ Charles Dickens

Be kind to people and don’t judge, for you do not know what demons they carry and what battles they are fighting.

~ Vashti Quiroz-Vega

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

~ Vera Nazarian

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

~ Debbie Macomber

The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.

~ Rick Riordan

The wine god sighed. 'Oh Hades if I know. But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never a great fighter or athlete or poet. I only made wine. The people in my village laughed at me. They said I would never amount to anything. Look at me now. Sometimes small things can become very large indeed.' He left me alone to think about that. And as I watched Clarisse and Chris singing a stupid campfire song together, holding hands in the darkness, where they thought nobody could see them, I had to smile.

~ Rick Riordan

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

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

~ William Shakespeare