Explore Quotes on Kindness

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

We are made kind by being kind.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, _x000D_And one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees.

Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.

Kindness is like snow-it beautifies everything it covers.

Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness,_x000D_And nothing so royal as truth.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.