Kindness Quotes

May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.

How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

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

God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

You stand for what is right, Lina, without the expectation of gratitude or reward.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22

Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.

People aren't born with kindness, it grows with them.

Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Random acts of kindness and the desire to do the best job possible lead to trust.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

One word of love is worth more than a thousand clever speeches.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

What a difference one person can make!

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.