Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings


A kind deed a day, like little drops of rain, Makes a mighty ocean and a gracious nation.
Lin Hsiu Nei

Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a place for you. Be kind, gentle, and enjoy the journey.
Peter McWilliams

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he ‘likes’ them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds himself liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.
C.S. Lewis

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
King Solomon

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Henry David Thoreau

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else’s.
Mignon McLaughlin

The greatest pleasure I have known is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee William

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Bible: Luke VI.31

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You’d soon forget to think ’twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You’d soon forget to notice it.
R. Foreman

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘try to be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
Nancy Reagan

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
J. Donald Walters

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali Ibn-Abi-Talib

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman

where there is hatred, let me sow love: where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
Sallust

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
Nonpareil

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahil Gibran

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
Alexander Pope

They are always saying God loves us. If that’s love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.
Graham Greene

If every man’s internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share
Who raise our envy now?
Peitro Metastasio

The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
Robert M. Pirsig

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Sir Winston Churchill

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