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Quotes About Kindness

You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Fill your mind with truth; fill your heart with love; fill your life with service.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
~ Austin O'Malley
The light around someone who speaks truth, who consistently acts with compassion for all, even in great difficulty, is visible to all around them.
~ Jack Kornfield
I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.
~ Ann B. Ross
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
~ Wilferd Peterson
The truth is, when girls are mean to you or make fun of you, it's because there's something wrong with them.
~ Kelly Osbourne
Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Truth without compassion is Cruelty.
~ Antero Alli
Truth should never travel faster than love.
~ Erwin McManus
Poor Petey. I'd like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I'd rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.
~ Franny Billingsley
Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.
~ Gautama Buddha
If ever there was a proverbial truth, it's the more you give, the more you get. Give and start experiencing a life of fulfillment!
~ Jen Lilley
Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.
~ Karen Allen
A man of truth must also be a man of care.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.
~ Marilynne Robinson
The truth may hurt, but love helps ease the pain.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
~ Orson Scott Card
I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.
~ Terence McKenna
Love thy neighbor is more than a divine truth. It is a pattern for perfection.
~ Thomas S. Monson