Quotes on Kindness 1

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.comIf you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob HopeNever look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ~Jesse JacksonA good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. ~Charles H. SpurgeonIt's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~Author UnknownToday, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Author UnknownWhat this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind. ~Cleveland AmoryIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~Dalai LamaDuring my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. ~Joann C. JonesI always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~Rudyard KiplingDon't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~Frank TygerNever miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author UnknownA fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert EinsteinKindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark TwainWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~SenecaA kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian ProverbKindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel JohnsonThere is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~ConfuciusDon't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. ~Author UnknownThe most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry BoyeWhen I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua HeschelIf we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark TwainLife is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone,Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in your own.~Adam Lindsay GordonHow far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington CarverYou can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~John WoodenKindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~Author UnknownIf those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. MerwinThe best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~William WordsworthYou cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ~PlatoBy swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston ChurchillReal generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~Frank A. ClarkThe kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. ~Author UnknownThe everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles KuraltLove thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.comWe have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ~EpictetusOne can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan ProverbBeing considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~Marian Wright EdelmanToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo BuscagliaA bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese ProverbAs the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.comWe always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966Have 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,'Til in Heaven the deed appears -Pass it on.~Henry Burton, Pass It OnMake it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. ~Saint Vincent de PaulRemember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.comThe best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back. ~Author UnknownOpen your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. ~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary EngelbreitBeginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og MandinoIf every man's internal careWere written on his brow,How many would our pity shareWho raise our envy now?~Peitro MetastasioKindness is the greatest wisdom. ~Author UnknownA person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry, "Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas FullerDo good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ~Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Social AimsThe best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand RussellIf we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred FrippTo give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. ~Max BeerbohmOne man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. WashingtonThe only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. SouthardGetting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel JohnsonThe first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. ~Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of ChristianityLove someone who doesn't deserve it. ~Author UnknownThe more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. ForbesIt is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llahThere are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. ~Attributed to both Zig Ziglar and Dr. Kenneth McFarlandThe true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson HendersonIf, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. MenckenTo err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.comThose who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew BarrieIn about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl ReilandHow far that little candle throws his beams!So shines a good deed in a naughty world.~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Thanks Aidan!)I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William PennThe greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin DisraeliHow beautiful a day can beWhen kindness touches it!~George EllistonSometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. ~From the television show My So-Called LifeSomething that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William FeatherReal charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan BennettWhen your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. MerwinI soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young GirlAlways be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. BarrieIf you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis


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-->Abraham Joshua Heschel:
When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.
-->Albert Schweitzer:
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
-->Amelia Earhart :
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. 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.
-->Arthur Dobrin:
There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Barbara De Angelis:
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
-->Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
-->Blaise Pascal:
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
-->Charles Kuralt:
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
D. H. Lawrence:
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
-->Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
-->Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.
-->Eric Hoffer:
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
-->Frederick W. Faber:
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
-->George Eliot:
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
-->Goethe:
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
H.H. the Dalai Lama:
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
H.H. the Dalai Lama:
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.This entry continued ...
H.H. the Dalai Lama:
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.
-->Harold Kushner:
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
-->Henry David Thoreau:
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
-->Henry James:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
-->James M. Barrie:
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
-->Jane Nelson:
Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?
Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire:
We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
-->Joseph Addison:
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Lao-Tse:
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle -- this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
Lao-Tse:
Kindness in words creates confidence.Kindness in thinking creates profundity.Kindness in giving creates love.
-->Leo Buscaglia :
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Marc Estrin:
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
-->Maya Angelou :
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
-->Mother Teresa:
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
-->Pearl S. Buck:
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
-->Philo:
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
-->Rabindranath Tagore:
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
-->Ralph Waldo Emerson:
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
-->Ralph Waldo Emerson.:
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Samuel Johnson:
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
-->Scott Adams:
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
-->Seneca:
Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness.
Talmud:
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.
-->Theodore Rubin:
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Thomas Berry:
If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.
-->Willa Cather:
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
William Menninger:
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William Wordsworth:
The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.