Kindness Quotes

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together.

~ Shannon Hale

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

A yogi is much more disciplined in his speech. Yogic tradition has it that speech must pass before three barriers prior to being uttered aloud. These barriers come in the form of three questions: Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? (112-113)

~ Prem Prakash

This is what kindness does, Ms.Albert said. Each little thing we do goes out, like a ripple, into the world.

~ Jacqueline Woodson

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his own.

~ Lao Tzu

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.

~ Margaret Edson

Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with animals, plants, and other forms of life-none of which he considered beneath himself, only different, with different jobs to perform. He worked side by side with earth angels and nature spirits, with whom he shared responsibility for taking care of the world.

~ Benjamin Hoff

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.

~ Tom Giaquinto

I drop kindness pebbles in still water everyday, and I watch the effect they have on other people’s lives.My favorite kindness pebbles are compliments.Drop a compliment and watch the ripple affect that it has in your life.

~ Johna Passaro

It is not about how much money we make or how big and powerful our work appears to others, it is about the love with which we put into each act of kindness toward another human being.

~ Joyce Vissell

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

~ Roy Bennett

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

~ Mike Mcintyre

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

~ Julian Assange

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

~ Dawna Markova

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

I couldn't shake the impulse to help him. It seemed that the older I got the more I believed that everyone, homeless or not, deserved to be treated at least like a human.

~ Julia Karr

Be kind to yourself, so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

~ Misha Collins

Give until it hurts.

~ Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

I’m not denying their kindness,” said the Rani. “But after all kindness isn’t the only virtue.

~ Aldous Huxley

Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they become naughty. Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it; and, for similar reasons, you will not readily alienate people by being somewhat proud and careless in your behavior; but if you are very kind and complaisant towards them, you will often make them arrogant and intolerable, and so a breach will ensue.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

~ Walter Savage Landor

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr. Fruit had resisted all efforts to reorder what he had been doing perfectly well for many years. He had not only monitored the comings and goings of the town, his presence softened the ingrained evil that flourished along the invisible margins of the town’s consciousness. Any community can be judged in its humanity or corruption by how it manages to accommodate the Mr. Fruits of the world. Colleton simply adjusted itself to Mr. Fruit’s harmonies and ordinations. He did whatever he felt was needed and he did it with style. “That’s the Southern way” my grandmother said. “That’s the nice way.

~ Pat Conroy

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

~ Deborah Day

Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian

~ Kowtham Kumar K

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

~ Tennessee Williams

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Give and receive, give big and receive big, give freely and receive freely, give poorly and receive poorly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Kindness is stronger than iron bars.

~ Margaret George

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

~ Terry Pratchett

In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you'll ever know. They're like hippies, only they wear way more black.

~ Kate Rockland

Kindness is a much more crushing force than anger.

~ Samael Aun Weor

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.

~ W.h. Davies