Kindness Quotes - page 5

Little soldier, little insect You know war it has no heart It will kill you in the sunshine Or happily in the the dark Where kindness is a card game Or a bent up cigarette In the trenches, in the hard rain With a bullet and a bet. (Conor Oberst)
We should remember that just as a positive outlook on life can promote good health, so can everyday acts of kindness. View quote
Hillary Clinton
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances. View quote
Mark Twain
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. View quote
Tony Snow
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. View quote
Nathaniel Branden
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. View quote
Frank Herbert
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. View quote
Emma Goldman
We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive. View quote
Benjamin Jowett
There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now. View quote
Guru Nanak Dev
Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions. View quote
Thomas Edison
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. (Charlie Chaplin)
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. View quote
Henry van Dyke
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him. View quote
Henry van Dyke
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver. View quote
Markus Zusak
If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy. View quote
Piero Ferrucci
... some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness. View quote
Rob Sheffield
My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind. View quote
Steven Seagal
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. View quote
Tilda Swinton
You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love. (Cheryl Strayed)
Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness. View quote
Vachel Lindsay