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Short Kindness Quotes

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Inspirational Kindness Quotes

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Martin Scorsese

Deep Kindness Quotes

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

Ron Reagan

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Tony Snow

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.

Bryant H. McGill

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

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.

Princess Diana

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

Albert Schweitzer

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George Dennison Prentice

More Kindness Quotes

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

Charles Kuralt

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

Joseph Joubert

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Mencius

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

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

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Jilly Cooper

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Frank Howard Clark

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

George MacDonald

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Nellie Bly

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

King Solomon

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

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

George Sand

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Princess Diana

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

Don Van Vliet

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.

Dalai Lama

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Anita Roddick

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Charles Kingsley

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Georg Brandes

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Martin Scorsese

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

Tobias Wolff

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.

Graham Greene

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Morarji Desai

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

Glenn Beck

It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind.

Richard G. Scott

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

P. D. James

I am so proud of Michigan's citizens for the kindness and generosity they have shown in assisting in this endeavor. It is truly heartwarming to see the compassion shown for those in need.

Jennifer Granholm

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

Jay Roach

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorthea Brande

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert

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