Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 9
To receive everything, one must open one’s hands and give.
Taisen Deshimaru
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They’re only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I’m ready, right now.
Elbert Hubbard
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
C.N. Bovee
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
Abu Bakr
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold
The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.
The Dalai Lama
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis Schaeffer
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt…It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
Gurdjieff
We hate the kindness which we understand.
Henry David Thoreau
We are never more like Jesus than when we are choked with compassion for others.
Anonymous
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Anonymous
Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
Bhagavad Gita
Nothing is so strong as gentleness,
and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Ralph Sockman
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
Anonymous
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.
George Eliot
In faith and hope the world will disagree,
But all mankind’s concern is charity.
Alexander Pope
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
Doris Haddock
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance…
The Apostle Paul
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence or learning.
Frederick W. Faber
Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
Samuel Johnson
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
Richard Gere
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel Johnson
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Stephen Jay Gould
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