Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings


There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

I’m trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That’s all you have to do. It’s no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.
Betty Williams

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Francis Bacon

Hugs can do great amounts of good — especially for children.
Princess Diana

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
Marcus Aurelius

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind, t’were perjury to love thee now!
Paul Tillich

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
Don Van Vliet

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Swami Sivananda

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

Caring is a powerful business advantage.
Scott Johnson

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don’t believe in the good old words because we don’t believe in good old values anymore. And that’s why the world is sick.
Lin Yutang

It is… axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
W. H. Auden

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
Svetlana Alliluyeva

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody’s need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind.
Anonymous

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Sloan Wilson

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Bible - Ephesians

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Jilly Cooper

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.
Mother Teresa

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
Roma Downey

Why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundation of any real civilisation, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every school.
Yehudi Menuhin

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
Margaret Cousins

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