Quotes About Kindness

A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Sweets to the sweet.

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.

Down on your knees,And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,But to support him after.

Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind, Thou art not so unkind, as Man's Ingratitude...

This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.

'Tis well said again;And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:And yet words are no deeds.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,Shall win my love.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,Become them with one half so good a graceAs mercy does.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

If you want to do something, the most practical thing I can tell you is: weep. First of all, care enough to weep.

Before you know it, if you're not careful, you can get to feeling sorry for everybody and there's nobody left to hate.

Is it not the great end of religion, and, in particular, the glory of Christianity, to extinguish the malignant passions; to curb the violence, to control the appetites, and to smooth the asperities of man; to make us compassionate and kind, and forgiving one to another; to make us good husbands, good fathers, good friends; and to render us active and useful in the discharge of the relative social and civil duties?

"Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs."

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.