Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 12
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
The Apostle Paul
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
William Hazlitt
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
If your words are soft and sweet, they won’t be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.
Anonymous
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Anne Baxter
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphrey Davy
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
Robert Burns
I came upon a doctor who appeared in quite poor health. I said, ‘There’s nothing that I can do for you that you can’t do for yourself.’ He said, ‘Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that that would help.’ So I sat with him a while then I asked him how he felt. He said, ‘I think I’m cured.’
Conor Oberst
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essense of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Ann Herbert
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.
Mencius
Do it that very moment!
Don’t put it off — don’t wait.
There’s no use in doing a kindness
If you do it a day too late!
Charles Kingsley
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
George MacDonald
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
A. Neilen
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
Audrey Hepburn
Fair and softly goes far.
Miguel De Cervantes
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
Chogyam Trungpa
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
Bill Gates
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
The Dalai Lama
Do a deed of simple kindness;
Though its end you may not see,
It may reach, like widening ripples,
Down a long eternity.
Joseph Norris
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
George Eliot
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
Kindness and intelligence don’t always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Frederick Buechner
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord
I therefore pledge… to conduct myself in a harmonious, peaceable manner, avoiding selfish or arrogant behaviour, giving love and kindness to those around me.
Guy Dauncy
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (From P.S. I Love You)
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