Kindness Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 3 | GloryQuotes

Everyone responds to kindness.

Richard Gere

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

Caroline Kennedy

Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.

Liza Minnelli

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.

Tilda Swinton

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

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

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

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

Graham Greene

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

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

Graham Greene

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James

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

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

Washington Irving

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

George A. Smith

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara de Angelis

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Saadi

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Jowett

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Evelyn Underhill

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.

Emma Goldman

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Amy Tan

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Henry Van Dyke

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Grantland Rice

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

Steven Cojocaru

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Malcolm Cowley

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Dalai Lama

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Joseph Lancaster

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

Gerald Massey

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

William Falconer

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

Paul Kane

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

James Oliver

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

Sloan Wilson

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.

Charles Sturt

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

Frederick William Faber

Kindness is wisdom.

Philip James Bailey

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

Roma Downey