Kindness Quotes

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.

True kindness is a pure divine affinity,
Not founded upon human consanguinity.
It is a spirit, not a blood relation,
Superior to family and station.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

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.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

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