Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings

The only religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that’s just the bottom line.
Ruben Studdard

Giving is the secret of a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has of encouragement, sympathy and understanding.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Tony Snow

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer

Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity
Hung Tzu-Cheng

I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the hearts affection, and the truth of the imagination.
John Keats

Kindness and courage can repair time’s faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
Edwin Muir

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you’ll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
Louis Auchincloss

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
François de la Rochefoucauld

Love someone who doesn’t deserve it.
Anonymous

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself
Anonymous

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.
Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
Princess Diana

I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don’t despise it. But it can’t quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
Georges Bernanos

In the second half of my life, I have come to agree with King David when he said “Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.”
Gary Amirault

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
William Falconer

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
William Arthur Ward

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Benjamin Jowett

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Samuel Johnson

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas.
John F. Kennedy

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck