Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Bonnie Jean Wasmund

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
Seneca

The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.
Pau Casals

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill

Compassion is the basis of all morality.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt

I’ve never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life’s end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.
B. C. Forbes

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Aristotle

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.
Anonymous

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard

Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with whom destiny has surrounded you.
Marcus Aurelius

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring.
John McLeod

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot

The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
Samuel Smiles

Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.
Mairead Corrigan Maguire

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
Moliere

The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
Peter Marshall

One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
Publilius Syrus

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Kahlil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
Kahlil Gibran

We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.
Doris Haddock

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given-you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.
Dawna Markova