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Quotes About Kindness

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.
~ Roma Downey
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
~ David Levithan
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
~ Mark Twain
Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.
~ Gerard Straub
One of the ultimate things a human can learn is kindness for their fellow humans
~ Evan Tanner
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.
~ Bob Kerrey
Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
~ Glen Duncan
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
~ Sloan Wilson
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
~ Frank Herbert
Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.
~ Malcolm X
No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.
~ Catherine Marshall
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
~ Aesop
Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.
~ Albert Collins
Scatter seeds of kindness.
~ George Ade
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
~ Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Kindness' covers all of my political beliefs.
~ Roger Ebert
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
~ James M. Barrie
If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled.
~ Publilius Syrus
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.
~ Vernon Howard
Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.
~ Ron Kaufman
There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.
~ John Patrick Shanley