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Quotes About Kindness

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.
~ Aristotle
Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind...
~ Baha'u'llah
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
~ Booker T. Washington
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.
~ Saint Augustine
Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.
~ Sam Walter Foss
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
~ John Steinbeck
Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.
~ Jojo Moyes
Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.
~ Confucius
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
~ Confucius
To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.
~ Demosthenes
The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.
~ Gautama Buddha
Conquer the angry man by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think that a man should be caring.
~ Little Richard
The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
~ Marshall Field
Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.
~ Richard Steele
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
~ Robert Burns