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Quotes About Kindness

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
~ Simon Cowell
Constant Kindness can accomplish much.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
How wise must one be to be always kind.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Kind words produce their images on men's souls.
~ Blaise Pascal
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
~ Margaret Cho
Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.
~ Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.
~ Robert Alan Aurthur
But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
~ Dave Matthews
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.
~ Antonio Porchia
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
~ Hosea Ballou
It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's no use trying to be clever-we are all clever here; just try to be kind-a little kind.
~ F. J. Foakes-Jackson
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
~ Benjamin Jowett
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
~ Martin Scorsese
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.
~ Homer
Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.
~ Edgar Cayce
If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
~ Barbara Johnson
Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.
~ Janette Oke
Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.
~ Jodi Picoult
Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.
~ Albert Pike
The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.
~ Marilynne Robinson