Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 8
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
John Wesley
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles
The end result of wisdom is…good deeds.
Babylonian Talmud
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh
The good deed you do today, for a brother or sister in need
Will come back to you some day, for humanity’s a circle in deed.
Robert Alan
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
Mother Teresa
Little kindnesses…will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.
Zadik
There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.
Leroy Jack Syrop
Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.
DuBose Heyward
As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.
Katherine Francke
After the verb “to love,” the verb, “to help” is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Bertha Von Suttner
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley
Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.
Mary Engelbreit (A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit)
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George D. Prentice
It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.
Publilius Syrus
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Maxim Gorky
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Grantland Rice
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
Buddha
Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
Mary Webb
There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
Aeschylus
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.
Frank A. Clark
A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said love one another.
Confucius
Be the kind of person you would like to be with.
Anonymous
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