Quotes about Kindness

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible."
-Albert Einstein

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
-Tennessee Williams

"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
-William Shakespeare

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
-The Dalai Lama

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."
-Confucius

"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."
-Confucius

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
-Margaret Cho

"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."
-The Dalai Lama

"When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That's something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they're talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values."
-Bill Maher

"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
-Cicero

"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
-Arthur Schopenhauer

"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that 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."
-Ettiene De Grellet

"Kindness is wisdom."
-Philip James Bailey

"I like to make people happy and please everyone at the same time, but it's not easy. I've got a really big heart, but sometimes it gets in the way and I trip over it!"
-Aj Mclean

"Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up."
-P. D. James

"Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness."
-Mencius

"Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad."
-John Greenleaf Whittier

"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them."
-Willa Sibert Cather

"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
-Bishop Desmond Tutu

"Kindness is always fashionable."
-Amelia E. Barr

"Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most."
-Ashleigh Brilliant

"Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them."
-Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
-Jose Saramago

"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
-Jodie Foster

"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."
-Frank Herbert