- Kindness Quotes -
(95 entries)
World Kindness Day (Nov. 13, '07)
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill
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as I grow older, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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But I say to you, love your enemies,
and pray for those who persecute you
Jesus
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Theresa
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I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic
than to love people.
 Vincent van Gogh
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches
but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Author Unknown
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We have two ears and one mouth
so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
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A candle loses nothing of its light when lighting another.
Kahlil Gibran
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.
Cicero
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Until the great mass of the people shall be filled
with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare,
social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
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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.
Amelia Earhart
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* All men are by nature equal,
made all of the same earth by one Workman;
and however we deceive ourselves,
as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
* At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
* Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
* The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato
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Being considerate of others will take your children further in life
than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I believe that those of us who are the producers
and purveyors of
television -- or video games or newspapers
or any mass media --
I
believe that we are the servants of this nation.
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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.
Leo Buscaglia
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Constant kindness can accomplish much.
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes
misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
But the greatest among you shall be your servant. Jesus Jane Nelson ------------ It has become appallingly obvious that our technology Albert Einstein Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds
on the heal that has crushed it.
* Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths.
No man or woman really knows what perfect love is
until they have been married a quarter of a century.
* The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.
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A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Author Unknown
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
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The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Gandhi
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And whoever exalts himself shall be humbled;
and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
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?
has exceeded our humanity.
Life's most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?
* Go often to the house of thy friend,
for weeds choke the unused path.
* 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.
* It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try to help another
without helping himself.
* The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him.
* Trust men and they will be true to you
treat them greatly,
and they will show themselves great.
* You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kindness is more important than wisdom,
and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
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The everyday kindness of the back roads
more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer
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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
Frederick W. Faber
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others,
cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tse
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Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
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You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
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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.
Willa Cather
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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love
are the best parts of a person's life.
William Wordsworth
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Jesse Jackson
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A 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. Spurgeon
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Today, 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.
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He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.
Goethe
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Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
Author Unknown
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody,
it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
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Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger
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Never miss an opportunity to make others happy,
even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Author Unknown
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A kind word is like a Spring day.
Russian Proverb
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Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
Author Unknown
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The most important trip you may take in life
is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
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How 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 Carver
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You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone
who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
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Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Author Unknown
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If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943,
translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
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Real generosity is doing something nice
for someone who will never find out.
Frank A. Clark
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The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
Author Unknown
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One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Chinese Proverb
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As 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, 1977
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The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.
Author Unknown
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Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
Author Unknown
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A 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"
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If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation
is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Bertrand Russell
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If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.
Alfred Fripp
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To give and then not feel that one has given
is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch
without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
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The only people with whom you should try to get even
are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
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Getting money is not all a man's business:
to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson
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Love someone who doesn't deserve it.
Author Unknown
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm S. Forbes
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
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If, 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. Mencken
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In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
Karl Reiland
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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 Penn
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Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
Dan Bennett
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* In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
as modest stillness and humility.
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
* Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
* Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
William Shakespeare