Quotes About Kindness

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

It was a long time since any one had spoken to him as kindly as Mrs Hale. Most people were either indifferent to his troubles, or disposed to think it natural that a young fellow of his age should have carried without repining the burden of three crippled lives. But Mrs Hale had said 'You've had an awful mean time, Ethan Frome,' and he felt less alone with his misery.

To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success.

He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.

But it is comparatively easy to behave beautifully when one is getting what one wants, and when some one else, who has not always been altogether kind, is not.

I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

The only way I can help you is by loving you,' Selden said in a low voice.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.

Perhaps, if I hadn't been, once before—I mean, if I'd always been a prudent deliberate Ralston, it would have been kinder to Tina in the end." Dr. Lanskell sank his gouty bulk into the chair behind his desk, and beamed at her through ironic spectacles. "I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

Yes, he would be kind – kind in his gross, unscrupulous, rapacious way, the way of the predatory creature with his mate.

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

When I grew up I would always be frank, loving and generous.

had taken place just before Grant's visit, and Wilhelm was unable to receive him. "Here is an old man," says Bismarck, — "one of the kindest old gentlemen in the world — and yet they must try and shoot him!

who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension...

I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss.

You shouldn't be too hard with little boys. You should treat them as precious, because that's what they are. —James Harker

But, she smiled, it seems to me he has a warm heart.

Cruelty is the opposite of love,' said Patrick, 'not just some inarticulate version of it.

To a foreign eye, America has so much philanthropy and so little charity. Most people have to kill themselves to prove that they deserve ordinary kindness, while a tiny group of people never stop boasting about how generous they are – as long as it's tax-deductible.

Our goal is to love people more than need them. We are overflowing pitchers, not leaky cups.

People familiar with shame are willing to wash feet, but they are uncomfortable with other people washing their feet. They are better at serving than being served. Well, get used to being served.