Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 2



Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William Menninger

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
Albert Schweitzer

Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.
Anonymous

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.
English Proverb

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James Matthew Barrie

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
Anonymous

Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
Rabindranath Tagore

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.
Proverb

Kindness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.
David Grayson

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Amelia Earhart

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kindness is the oil that smoothen the friction of life.
Anonymous

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Marc Estrin

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.
Mother Teresa

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

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