Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 19

Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness.
Rollo May

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
Camille Anna Paglia

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.
Mark Victor Hansen

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don’t discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
James Oliver

Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone: in another’s trouble, in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.
Erwin W. Lutzer

I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.
Carrie Fisher

Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart.
My So-Called Life (A Television Show)

Sometimes just a smile on your face
Can help to make this world a better place.
Stand up for the things that are right.
Try to talk things out instead of fight.
Lend a hand when you can, get involved this is good.
You can help to make a difference in your neighborhood.
Robert Alan

Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.
Fran

How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
Robert Burns

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Anonymous

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
Myriam Miedzian

How frail the human heart must be –a mirrored pool of thought…
Sylvia Plath

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.
John Wilmot Rochester

Love truth, and pardon error.
Voltaire

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Joseph Addison

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.
John Ruskin

He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest.
Phaedrus

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.
Soren Kierkegaard

Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes. That nature’s fragile vessel doth sustain/ In life’s uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them.
William Shakespeare

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
Jupiter Hammon

Every day, go out of your way to do something kind.
Anonymous

I do it because I want to exercise people’s compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
Kyra Sedgwick

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The value of compassion cannot be over-emphasized. Anyone can criticize. It takes a true believer to be compassionate. No greater ;burden can be borne by an individual than to know no one cares or understands.
Arthur H. Stainback

English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth.
Perelman

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