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Quotes About Kindness

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.
~ WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
Without humility there can be no humanity.
~ John Buchan
If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.
~ Dalai Lama
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
~ Confucius
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
~ Barbara Walters
The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.
~ Henri Nouwen
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
~ Alice Neel
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
~ Joseph Joubert
Every human heart is human.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Humanity is the equity of the heart.
~ Confucius
I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived.
~ Albert Schweitzer
If our tears do not lead us to act then we have lost the reason of our humanity, which is compassion.
~ Dalai Lama
I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.
~ Robert Thurman
Animal protection is education to the humanity.
~ Albert Schweitzer
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
~ Alan Paton
True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
~ Mary Howitt
The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.
~ Joe Flanigan
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
~ William Arthur Ward
If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
~ Dalai Lama
Humanity is actually much more cooperative and empathic than [it's] given credit for.
~ Frans de Waal
I hope I have repaid Australia for the humanity it showed me, as it has shown to so many others over the years.
~ John Yu
... humility + humor = humanity.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
~ Kathryn Jean Lopez
Mama, humanity is my business.
~ Philip Zimbardo