Kindness Quotes
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... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.
Carl Rakosi
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Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
Patanjali
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For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.
David Copperfield
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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
Libby Houston
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It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.
F. J. Foakes-Jackson
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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin
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I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.
William Penn
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One thing I will add: if I have ever found kindness, it has not been from Liberals; to disengage myself from them was the first act of my freedom.
Mary Shelley
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Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
Karen Duffy
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This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
William Shakespeare
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He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
Laura Nyro
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I like how Mother Teresa put it: "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile." If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself
Sean Covey
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Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.
Abraham Lincoln
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I look back with the greatest pleasure to the kindness and hospitality I met with in Yorkshire, where I spent some of the happiest years of my life.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
Aaron Neville
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
Walter Isaacson
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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.
C. S. Lewis
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I think, regardless of gender, women and men need to be brave, take chances with their work, and be open to feedback. But I do think 'politeness' is an issue that can hinder your work if you aren't careful. Kindness is important, but being overly polite - thinking you can't disagree with someone about your own work - be careful about that.
Ellie Kemper
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Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
Charles Sturt
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I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.
Jacqueline Woodson
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I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity to ensure that the planet can go on, so we need this diversity of affection and diversity of family in order to strengthen the ecosphere of kindness.
Andrew Solomon