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Quotes About Kindness

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kindness is the essence of greatness.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
~ George Eliot
Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
~ Cory Booker
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
~ Jeff Bezos
One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I'm working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.
~ Caitlin Stasey
Kindness in words creates confidence.
~ Laozi
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.
~ Piero Ferrucci
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
~ Laozi
Practice random acts of kindness, the world needs it more than you think
~ Boonaa Mohammed
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
~ Tertullian
Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"
~ Wayne Dyer
to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
~ Agnes Repplier
We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn't weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.
~ Jim Rohn
My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.
~ R. J. Palacio
Carve your name on hearts, not on marble
~ Charles Spurgeon