KINDNESS QUOTES
quotations about kindness
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
J. M. BARRIE
The Little White Bird
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones ... and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense.
JEREMY BENTHAM
Deontology; or, The Science of Morality, from the MSS. of J. Bentham
Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.
JAMES L. GORDON
The Homiletic Review, Jun. 1917
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A Streetcar Named Desire
Kindness is the touch of heaven, a reminder of the covenant of the unseen.
MARK ANTHONY
The Way Through
Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.
MUHAMMAD
attributed, Al-Islam
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.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
A Daughter of Eve
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
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON
Essays
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP
The Lion and the Mouse
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
TALMUD
Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
Kindness is a distemper which is soon cured by experience.
ABRAHAM MILLER
Unmoral Maxims
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, Magic City Morning Star, Jun. 1, 2005
Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making less effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.
PIERO FERRUCCI
The Power of Kindness
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
As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451
Real kindness seeks no return.
TIRUVALLUVAR
Tirukkural
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER
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