Quotes on Human Kindness

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Ever since then I have known that if all the values in this world are more or less questionable, the most important thing in life is kindness.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

More than machinery, we need humanity.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.