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Quotes About Kindness

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Life is an opportunity to contribute love in your own way.
~ Bernie Siegel
Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you.
~ Voltaire
To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.
~ Gautama Buddha
Make my happiness--I will make yours.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
~ Aisha Tyler
Love without conditions.
~ Seth Adam Smith
'Tis more blessed to give than to receive for example wedding presents.
~ H. L. Mencken
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
~ Bhagat Singh
I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.
~ Saladin
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.
~ Zinedine Zidane
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
~ Andrew Carnegie
There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.
~ Maimonides
In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
~ Cyrus the Great
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
~ Maimonides
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
~ Blaise Pascal
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
~ Ambrose
Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.
~ Pedro Arrupe
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
~ Frederick The Great