Quotes

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
-Bailey

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
-Confucius

Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
-David Garrick

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
-George Eliot

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
-Lin Yutang

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Theresa

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
-Philip James Bailey

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
-Scott Adams

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
-Anonymous Author

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
-Confucius

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
-Demosthenes

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
-George Sand

I have learnt silence from the talkative toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind; yet strange I am ungrateful to these teachers
-Kahlil Gibran

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
-Lord Byron

Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King from America Leo Tolstoy from Russia and millions of anonymous women and men live nonviolence.
-O Anna Niemus

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Till in Heaven the deed appears-- Pass it on.
-Rev Henry Burton

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
-Sir Arthur Helps

Though he was rough, he was kindly.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
-A A Milne

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
-Anonymous Author

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-Dalai Lama

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.
-Elbert Hubbard

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
-Gerald Massey

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolutions
-Kahlil Gibran

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
-Malayan Proberb

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
-Olive Schreiner

Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
-Richard Carlson

On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
-William Wordsworth

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
-Albert Schweitzer

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
-Charles Kuralt

The only religion is kindness.
-Dalai Lama

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
-Eric Hoffer

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
-Homer

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love.
-Lao Tzu.

Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.
-Mikao Usui

Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.
-Anonymous Author

I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
-Robert Burton

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
-William Wordsworth