Kindness Quotes

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours.

~ Ilyas Kassam

...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then.

~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Don't play with others, or at one day, you will be played by others.

~ Usama Ejaz

The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us.

~ Dorothy Day

Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

~ Thurman P. Banks Jr.

I once overheard someone telling someone else Don't confuse kindness with something else. Even though this was not directed at me, I took heed and never hedged my bets.

~ Shawn Michael Severud

Cottontail knocked on the big front door and was admitted to the Palace. There she stood in her funny country clothes but none of the other four Easter Bunnies laughed, for they were wise and kind and knew better.

~ Dubose Heyward

...the third reason [for being nice to the underdogs in life] being that the wheel of fortune is always spinning, spinning. And just because you're at the top today doesn't mean it'll always be so. When you're at the bottom, you'll want someone to be there for you too.

~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love

~ Bryant Mcgill

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

~ Gayle Forman

We change the world a little each day with our kindness.

~ Tom Giaquinto

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

I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.

~ Nahoko Uehashi

If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

~ Ayn Rand

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

~ Steve Goodier

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.

~ L.m. Fields

It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you - the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit. This beauty will never disappear, and it is worth very much to God. Peter 3:3-4

~ Anonymous

Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.

~ Nikki Rosen

To be honest, to be kind - to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation - above all, on the same grim condition, to keep friends with himself - here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. He has an ambitious soul who would ask more; he has a hopeful spirit who should look in such an enterprise to be successful.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to listen to Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth, me, and the great things, only the first one matters to Mary Elizabeth. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.

~ Brenda Hiatt

...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...

~ John Geddes

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

~ Ann Patchett

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.

~ Andrew Levkoff

Cosmé is in constant attendance. Though no one will take Aneaxi’s place, Cosmé is the most efficient maid I’ve ever had. I tell her so, frequently, and it gives me such a twist of pleasure to watch her react to praise from someone she despises. The Scriptura Sancta calls it “the fire of kindness.

~ Rae Carson

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

~ Enid Blyton

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness, the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness.

~ John O'donohue

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often...You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.

~ Tom Giaquinto

Everyone calls him BlockheadNo one sings his praisesOr takes him to heart...That is the kind of personI want to be

~ Kenji Miyazawa

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive.

~ Merce Cardus

A simple act of kindness the size of a rice grain can weigh as heavy as a mountain.

~ Feroz Bham

I thought it could be something, I mean, eventually. Harrison finally looks at us. My life I thought-but I mean... it's nothing.Don't cry Grace says. You have a lot of time.No, I don't.Yeah, you do.No.-Yeah! Yeah, you do. It's okay. Look-She does something that is so amazingly selfless and also gross. She tilts Harrison's face up and gives him a sweet kiss on the lips and it lasts long enough for him to taste her back, to move his mouth against hers.Harrison stares at her dumbfounded but he's stopped cryingShe is so nice.

~ Courtney Summers

So at the end of the day, here was what Mike was able to believe in: people.It was people and their kindness the made him feel blessed. It was people who were the heroes, and people who were generous, and people who comforted one another.

~ Kaya Mclaren

When I was a nursemaid at the home of the landowners, a nun who happened to pass once gave me something square and white.Timidly I licked it and discovered that it was sweet and delicious. I realize now that it must have been a sugar cube;but still, more than twenty years later, I remember clearly the joy I felt then. It's not just children; everyone seems to be deeply touched by unexpected joy brought to them by others and is unable to forget it. That child will be grown up by now, and if he hasn't forgotten me, whenever he sees a crying child he'll want to say a kind word and wipe the kid's nose. And when that kid grows up, he'll do the same. To do something kind for another is never a bad feeling; it fosters a spirit of caring for other people. And who knows,after a hundrend years, human beings may even learn to cooperate with one another...Yes, that was it: I'd try to teach children that if they felt glad when someone gave them a single piece of candy,then they in turn should give to others.

~ Sayo Masuda

I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness.

~ Dean Koontz

He advocated that all who follow Jesus are priests, not just the official clergy. Much of what he said made sense, as did his kind manner. But why was he here now? Had this persecuted recluse emerged just to speak to me?

~ David Holdsworth