Kindness Quotes

I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

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

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

Beginning 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.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

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

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

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

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

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.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can't do without them.

Kindness is always fashionable.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

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.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

People just deserve to be treated with kindness.

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.