Quotes About Kindness

Firstly, I would say 'kindness is free' - we've all been on the receiving end of a smile from someone when you need it and it can work wonders. And secondly 'take risks' - sometimes the very thing you fear is actually what you need to do.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

John Woo is a very nice and kind person; he gives almost no direction at all, trusting me to come up with the character. But when I think of him, I think of explosions!

My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.

I judge a man by the way he treats people who don't count. Woody Hayes was nice to a lot of people he couldn't ever use.

Love proves itself by deeds, so how am I to show my love? Great deeds are forbidden me. The only way I can prove my love is by scattering flowers, and these flowers are every little sacrifice, every glance and word, and the doing of the least actions for love.

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.

Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Sometimes, it is enough for us to hold out a hand to receive help. It is not we who help; God helps, granting His power to the powerless word.

Word hark, be kind, and good things will happen for sure.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

Keith treated me like queen. In the three years we were married, he never said one ugly word to me, never raised his voice. We had disagreements and arguments but he was so gentle and caring. As much as I had to take care of him, he took care of me in other ways.

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion. Surely when you love your wife with all your heart, you cannot demean her, criticize her, find fault with her, or abuse her by words, sullen behavior, or actions.

I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea, and it would change things. That's a harmless conceit. With people, too, you constantly think, 'If I'm nice to people and treat them well, they'll appreciate it and behave better.' They won't, but it's still not a bad way to live.

Although you may get exhausted sometimes, you can still get over it if you have people around you who give you warm words.

Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.