Kindness Quotes

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

In choosing a course of action, it's best to take the tack of kindness.

The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.

With Kindness 1+1 always equals more than 2

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

the supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

I'd be dishonoring God if I didn't believe I was put here on Earth to help change the world.

It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

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.

I get a lot of people trying to take advantage of me because of my kindness. So, I'm either real nice to you, or I want to cut your head off. There's no in between with me.

Codex Orféo is something you won't see coming at you, but it does. It's all about kindness to other species, and to one another. If we can work that out, the world will take care of herself.

I'm always trying to remember that kindness goes a long, long way. I think that's something that people will definitely take out of this film as well.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.

The more we talk about kindness in business, the more we'll break through the hard structures that have defined business and alienated women from getting to the top.

Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.

[On Italy:] ... the country where kindness to strangers is a religion, you can't turn your head without seeing something beautiful, and you can't get a bad meal if you try.

There is nothing more powerful than kindness.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

People respond better to kindness than cruelty. Why, it's even caught on in the workplace, that bastion of self-hatred and disrespect.

There is no small act of kindness.

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

Each girl is special-one of a kind-a child of God, and each must be taught to live his commandments in order to inherit his eternal blessings.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.

Will you continue doing goodness even if you know that no one will know them? Will you continue doing kindness even if you know that no one will remember them? Then, you are truly a holy man!