Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 3



What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.
Anonymous

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEswan

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran

If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
Syrus

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publilius Syrus

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Emmanuel Swedenborg

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.
Liz Armbruster

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm S. Forbes

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love…Kindness is good will. Kindness says, “I want you to be happy”.
Randolph Ray

The very nature of kindness
Is to spread.
If you are kind to others,
Today they will be kind to you,
And tomorrow to somebody else.
Sri Chinmoy

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.
Miguel de Cervantes

Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.
Talmud

Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
Anonymous

Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.
Richard Carlson

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
Henry James

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius

We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds.
Anonymous

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can’t help but lift ourselves up, too.
Anonymous

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
Anonymous

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Gerald Jampolsky

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
Lord Byron

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck

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