Kindness Quotations

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

We think too much and feel too little.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.

When you worked in a studio it was the studio system that you kind of missed because it was a big, big family. I mean MGM had 5,000 people working a day there. You miss it.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

I'm always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humour.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

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.

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Love is easy! Kindness is easy. So I try on my Twitter page to acknowledge everyone that reaches out to me. I try to make my page - I can't control the rest of Twitter - but I try to make my page a safe place for people.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so many other women in my generation. Their pioneering lives have created boundless possibilities for women in the law. I thank them for their inspiration and also for the personal kindnesses they have shown me.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world,

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.

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.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or even kindness. But if it doesn't come, at some point I snap and demand it.

Christians – whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever – have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is,

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not so latent by fears or projections into the future, or old habits, and then I can actually stir loving-kindness or compassion in skills training too, which can be sort of provocative, I found.

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.