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Quotes About Kindness

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.
~ Percy Jewett Burrell
Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.
~ Dale Carnegie
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
~ Albert Schweitzer
The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.
~ Dwight L. Moody
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
~ Arnold Bennett
Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.
~ Bertrand Russell
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
~ Anne Frank
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned.
~ Robert Lembke
Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.
~ Edith Stein
We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .
~ Wilferd Peterson
the soul of conversation is sympathy
~ Thomas Campbell
Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
~ Pope Francis
Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own
~ Tryon Edwards
If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.
~ Dorotheus of Gaza
Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.
~ Mary Lou Retton
In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
~ Sophie Swetchine
It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
~ Daniel Handler
A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise
~ Anna Laetitia Waring
I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.
~ Marie Dressler