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Quotes About Kindness

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
~ Francois Fenelon
If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.
~ George Q. Cannon
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
~ Alexander Pope
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
~ Mencius
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.
~ Plato
It is a very high stage in the path of love when man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
~ James Dobson
Men are very easy- You treat them well, and they behave right. You don't treat them well, and they don't behave right.
~ Laura Schlessinger
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.
~ William Wordsworth
All good men are anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are anarchists. Jesus was an anarchist.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.
~ Gautama Buddha
It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
~ Aeschylus
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
~ Bram Stoker
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
~ Demosthenes
Your neighbor is the man who needs you.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Say your truth—kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Whatever you choose for yourself, give to another. If you choose to be happy, cause another to be happy. If you choose to be prosperous, cause another to prosper. If you choose more love in your life, cause another to have more love in theirs. Do this sincerely—not because you seek personal gain, but because you really want the other person to have that—and all the things you give away will come to you.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The central question in ANY decision is, "What would love do now?" Love for yourself, and love for all others who are affected or involved. If you love another, you will not do anything that you believe could or would hurt that person. If there is any question or doubt, you will wait until you can get to clarity on the matter.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You don't know how to love without condition.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
that what you do to others, you do to yourself; what you fail to do for others, you fail to do for yourself; that the pain of others is your pain, and the joy of others your joy, and that when you disclaim any part of it, you disclaim a part of yourself. Now is the time to reclaim yourself. Now is the time to see yourself again
~ Neale Donald Walsch
At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? No other question is relevant, no other question is meaningful, no other question has any importance to your soul.
~ Neale Donald Walsch