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Quotes About Kindness

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.
~ Sidney Sheldon
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
~ Vaclav Havel
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
~ Plutarch
There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope
Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
~ John Dryden
Human nature is disposed to do good.
~ Mencius
There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
~ Laurence Sterne
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
~ David Attenborough
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature.
~ Gelek Rimpoche
(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.
~ Bernard Malamud
Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man shall never be enriched by envy.
~ Thomas Draxe
The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
~ Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.
~ Lord Acton
The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness.
~ Timothy Keller
Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.
~ Bertrand Russell
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
~ Vikram Seth
It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.
~ Marcus Aurelius