Quotes About Kindness II

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault


Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~Samuel Johnson


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. ~Confucius


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye


When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel


If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain


Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~George Washington Carver


If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~Bob Hope


The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~Malayan Proverb


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ~Marian Wright Edelman


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather


Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett


Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson


The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ Baha'u'llah


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino


If every man's internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share
Who raise our envy now?
~Peitro Metastasio


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain


Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie


In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb