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Quotes About Kindness

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
~ Albert Einstein
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.
~ Gautama Buddha
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
~ Hedy Lamarr
Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.
~ Ellen G. White
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
~ Mel Brooks
The healthy man does not torture others.
~ Carl Jung
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
~ Morarji Desai
Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Blessing: Constructive thought directed toward anyone or condition. You bless a man when you recognize the divinity in him.
~ Ernest Holmes
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
~ Saul Bellow
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
~ Harry S. Truman
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
~ Denis Diderot
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
~ John Stott
It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human being...until ye change the world of man into the world of God.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A man is not wealthy simply by the contents of his pockets alone, but instead by the richness of his heart.
~ Robert M. Hensel
If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
~ Sophocles
If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!
~ Jack LaLanne