Kindness Quotes

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment.

I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.

You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward.

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.

I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Send a drop of kindness, and see a happy face.

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.

When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what power it has over my mind, while the opposite course has a tendency to harrow up all the harsh feelings and depress the human mind.

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Paul [Walker]’s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Kindness makes for much better teamwork.

The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

Saints are the great teachers of the loving-kindness and fascination with God.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

You are the male I might have been. You are the potential I had and lost. You are the honor and the strength and the kindness she needs. You'll take care of her. I want you to take care of her.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.