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Quotes About Kindness

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
~ Oscar Wilde
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
~ J. PetitSenn
It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
~ English proverb
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.
~ Horace Rutledge
We are made kind by being kind.
~ Eric Hoffer
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.
~ Felix Adler
Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.
~ Bill Zimmerman
This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.
~ George Gissing
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
~ Bible
Blessed is he that considereth the poor.
~ Bible
A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.
~ Eleanor Hamilton
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress.
~ William Blake
Pray for one another.
~ Bible
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
~ Sojourner Truth
God bless all those that I love; God bless all those that love me; God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.
~ New England Sampler
Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.
~ George Herbert
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.
~ Sa'di
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterance, and the day's good deed.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
~ Goodman Ace
Your luck is how you treat people.
~ Bridget O'Donnell
Revenge is an inhuman word.
~ Seneca
A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.
~ Mohammed
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
~ Mother Teresa