Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 5



Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
Anonymous

There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Buddhist saying

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.
Anonymous

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Bible: Proverbs

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding

There’s no dearth of kindness in the world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Gerald Massey

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
‘Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another’s tears,
‘Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
Henry Burton

Kindness is always fashionable.
Amelia E. Barr

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreiner

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
Margaret Cho

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
Aristotle

Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.
Thich Nhat Hanh

Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
Arabian proverb

Kindness begets kindness.
Proverb

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.
Edgar A. Guest

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?
Sheryl Crow

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not.
Dan Bennett

What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.
Cleveland Amory

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson

Kindness is the ability to love someone more than they deserve.
Anonymous

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Jacqueline Schiff

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
Helen Keller

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
Antonio Porchia, Voces

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama)

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.
Anonymous

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