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Quotes About Kindness

These are 8- and 12-year-old kids. It doesn't matter how they got here. It is time to show a little compassion
~ Paul Soglin
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched.
~ Pope Francis
Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.
~ Richard Branson
LOOK back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
~ Emily Dickinson
Next time you see a brother down Stop and pick him up, Cause you might be the next one stuck.
~ Grand Puba
I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.
~ Jules Verne
Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.
~ Sir Harry Lauder
Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.
~ Tan Twan Eng
If you take the time to study how to be a doctor and how to use your scalpel and your medicine, then there are endless beings out there to help.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.
~ Alex Rodriguez
If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!
~ David Dunn
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
~ Kate Bosworth
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
~ Mark Twain
The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
~ Mercedes McCambridge
It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.
~ Mother Teresa
I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.
~ Philip Massinger
Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.
~ Sho Baraka
Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"
~ Sophie Swetchine
Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.
~ Thomas Campion
We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man on his feet. Blessed is the man who speaks such a word.
~ William Barclay
I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
~ Euripides