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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP, The Lion and the Mouse
Kindness begets kindness evermore.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, A Streetcar Named Desire
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
AMELIA EARHART, Magic City Morning Star, Jun. 1, 2005
Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness.
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
HONORE DE BALZAC, Le Siècle
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass -- deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
CHARLES SPURGEON, Baptismal Regeneration
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Any good ... that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.
STEPHEN GRELLET, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations
We seem to feel keenest the kindness that comes from one who is generally cruel.
Real kindness seeks no return.
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER, Power Quotes to Energize Your Life
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Emile
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER, Michael Ruge's Quote-a-Quote
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH, RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
GRAHAM GREENE, The Captain and the Enemy
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
- Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
- Help to make earth happy, like the heaven above.
JULIA CARNEY, Little Things
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
ARTHUR LYNCH, Moods of Life
- Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise,
- Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.
BHARTRHARI, "The Praise of Works"
- The kindest souls are ever
- Those who sin and suffer most,
- And who thoughtfully endeavor
- To forget whereof men boast.
EDWIN LEIBFREED, "When the Gentle Christ Was Tracing"
- That song is sweetest, bravest, best,
- Which plucks the thistle-barb of care
- From a despondent brother's breast,
- And plants a sprig of heart's-ease there.
ANDREW DOWNING, "The Sweetest Song"
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.
Kindness is a distemper which is soon cured by experience.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Kindness is like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ, The Complete Book of Zingers
One good turn asketh another.
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