Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 11
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’ and other such simple courtesies…Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.
Ed Hays
The best way to find good in thyself is to begin to look for good in others.
Anonymous
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
John Berger
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
Henry David Thoreau
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.
John Lyly
I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with kindness, I usually make the right decision.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederick Amiel
Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
David D. Burns
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
Thomas Fuller
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Frank Herbert
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feather
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou
Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer.
Mignon McLaughlin
Hungry not only for bread — but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing — but naked for human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a room of bricks — but homeless because of rejection.
Mother Teresa
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Lytton
What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
Confucius
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.
Alfred Fripp
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
Samuel Johnson
The beginning and end of Torah is performing acts of loving kindness.
The Talmud
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The catch phrase for the day is ‘Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.’
Harvey Ball
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
Moses Maimonides
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
Confucius
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny.
Syrus
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
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U Thant
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