Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 18

Perform a random act of kindness for someone a smile, compliment, or a favor just for fun. These will multiply and spread very rapidly.
Steve Brunkhorst

Knowledge, without common sense,” says Lee, is
“folly; without method, it is waste;
without kindness, it is fanaticism;
without religion, it is death.”
But with common sense, it is wisdom
with method, it is power;
with clarity, it is beneficence;
with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farrar

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
Bryant H. McGill

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman

We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet For auld lang syne.
Robert Burns

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
Robert Brault

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said, “I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone.”
Anonymous (The Wise Woman’s Stone)

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.
Ron Reagan

I’ve experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I’m not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
Joanna Trollope

When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back – when there’s some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.
Sharon Stone

If you step on people in this life, you’re going to come back as a cockroach.
Willie Davis

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
Charles Sturt

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
Antonio Porchia

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long

I am so proud of Michigan’s citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.
Jennifer Granholm

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
Saint Vincent de Paul

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude;
be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully;
be thoughtful, but not lazy;
be humble, but not timid;
be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.
John Donne

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
Cole Younger

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen

A fellow who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them.
Albert Einstein

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein

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