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Quotes About Kindness

Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.
~ Nicky Gumbel
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
~ Charles Kingsley
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.
~ Sophocles
Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.
~ Aesop
The short way to happiness is through kindness and sensitivity.
~ Frederick Lenz
He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
~ Nellie Bly
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
~ Helen Keller
Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse.
~ James Leonard Gordon
No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.
~ Hani
We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
~ George Santayana
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.
~ Charles James
Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.
~ Danielle Cormack
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
~ Max Lucado
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
~ Laozi
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
~ Billy Joel
Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
~ Samuel Johnson
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
~ Dawn Powell
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo