Kindness Quotes

You were kind.”Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hear

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.

~ Deepak Chopra

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

~ Donna Tartt

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

~ Val Uchendu

No act of kindness deserves a debt in return.

~ Erin Forbes

She had needed kindness before, and had received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.

~ Frances Hardinge

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

~ Stephen Jay Gould

If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,I'd be sorry.But I value things unpossessed.The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.

~ Dorothy Hartley

When you have a good heart, kindness becomes a responsibility you take up.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Life is too short, so don't let no one to ruin your day, the best way to avoid them is to kill them with kindest

~ Beta Metani' Marashi

He trusted that I would have a very pleasant stay: it was so peaceful, and the meals were delicious. As he said it, I realized that he was expressing not just a belief, but a hope, because he was one of those people, and you don't see them every day, who take an instinctive pleasure in the happiness of their fellow men – that he was, in other words, a nice guy.

~ Michel Houellebecq

But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not be overlooked. It was gratitude. -- Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection. He who, she had been persuaded, would avoid her as his greatest enemy, seemed, on this accidental meeting, most eager to preserve the acquaintance, and without any indelicate display of regard, or any peculiarity of manner, where their two selves only were concerned, was soliciting the good opinion of her friends, and bent on making her known to his sister.

~ Jane Austen

For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

~ Charles Dickens

Words like “patience”, and “kindness”, and “goodness”. They are the words of a hero.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

You can get anything you want if you're nice to people. People like to do things for people, it's so easy to be kind.

~ Kate Moretti

Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.

~ Michael Benzehabe

Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294

~ Michael Benzehabe

Even the most kindest person in the world, can be the most cruelest person.

~ Puredragonwolf

You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

~ Rowan Coleman

Are you a Buddhist?No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.

~ Scott Hawkins

She may not be the prettiest, or the smartest, or the wealthiest at the Academy, but she could be kind. Anyone could be kind.

~ Alleece Balts

If you appreciate, you will appreciate.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Be a goal-setter, a go-getter, all the while, moving, in humility and kindness.

~ Kamini Arichandran

Though Julian could be marvelously kind in difficult circumstances of all sorts, I sometimes got the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

~ Donna Tartt

Answer suffering with kindness.

~ Claudia Gray

And just as there is random horror-murder,suicide,child abuse,car accidents.......there is also indiscriminate kindness.Not merely miracles,though I have experienced them.But simple human connection,either brokered by an angel or sourced by one.That is why I try to encourage people to be receptive to that new person who seems to have appeared in their life out of nowhere.

~ Chris Bohjalian

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse

~ Kahlil Gibran

What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

~ Marilyn Manson

The world is a chaotic place find a love that doesn't allow a home to have the same feeling.

~ Nikki Rowe

t wait until you become rich to help somebody, kindness doesn't always require money

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Don't wait until you become rich to help somebody, kindness doesn't always require money

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Be kind to UNKIND people.They need it the most.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

As much as we seek approval, we dread condemnation

~ Dale Carnegie

Your words to yourself and to others should uplift, never tear down.

~ Eileen Anglin

Cracks in our souls help us bear the overwhelming imperfections of the world. They're not our flaws. Kindness knows this.

~ Aditya Bhaskara

So much drama off and online...Be kind and respect others.Follow the golden rule. Always.Don't step on others.Chase your dreams the right way.Keep your head up. Then, everything else will take care of itself.

~ K.j. Kilton

Unexpected and pleasant surprises occur every day...random kindnesses from a stranger, would-be tragic accidents narrowly avoided, sicknesses healed.... We will notice if we look. We will see good sprinkled liberally over every day if we are open.

~ Steve Goodier

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

~ Guy Gavriel Kay