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Quotes About Kindness

Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.
~ Garrison Keillor
Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?
~ Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
True men and women are all physicians to make us well.
~ C. A. Bartol
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.
~ Al Aronowitz
There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.
~ Albert Schweitzer
I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen; that when We climb to heaven, 'tis on the rounds Of love to men.
~ Alice Cary
It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
~ Alice Hegan Rice
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.
~ Annie Dillard
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
~ Anuj
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.
~ Arthur Helps
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.
~ Cat Deeley
Trample not on the ruins of a man.
~ Charles Lamb
Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.
~ Charles Lamb
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
~ Charles Spurgeon
What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
~ Daniel Defoe
Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.
~ Delia Sherman
A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
~ Desmond Tutu
Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.
~ Dov Davidoff
I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.
~ Eddie Jemison
Inhumanity is caught from man, From smiling man.
~ Edward Young