Kindness Quotes

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 ease before his own hearth.

Lois McMaster
- Men
- Heart
- Kind
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare
- Humans
- Kindness
- Milk

There are many reasons for kindness, and religion is just one of them.

Frans de Waal
- Kindness
I think people are naturally good, I see it every day. Look at this restaurant. No one's causing anybody any trouble in here. We're all sitting, respecting each other's space, we're keeping our voices down, we're saying "please" and "thank you" - those are acts of generosity that we commit on a second by second basis that we don't give ourselves enough credit for. There's a lot of kindness in this world, we're just such vain creatures; our vanity can be used against us so easily. We're like dogs, hairless dogs.

Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
- People
- Thinking
- Dog
What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

C.P. Cavafy
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

Dalai Lama
Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

Nella Larsen
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.

Charles Fenno Hoffman
- Greatness
- Evidence
- Vain