Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 10
Of all the ways you can think of, none has a sixteenth part of the value of loving kindness. Loving kindness is a freedom of the heart which takes in all the ways. It is luminous, shining, blazing forth.
Itivuttaka Sutta
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction…the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.
Leo Tolstoy
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson
Love for other people. I think that’s another very important part of morality, being genuinely compassionate and concerned about the feelings and well being of other people, especially those that depend on you directly.
George McGovern
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm
The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Everett M. Dirksen
I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
Edward Franklin Albee
Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.
Philip James Bailey
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
Anne McCaffrey
Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.
Marcus Aurelius
Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.
Sri Chinmoy
The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est – this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world’s History.
Ludwig Feuerbach
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie
Everyone responds to kindness.
Richard Gere
Can I see another’s woe, and not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. Lewis
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
Nellie Bly
Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.
Hubert Humphrey
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas Merton
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Demosthenes
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante
Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.
Karen Horney
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