quotations about kindness
Love is the charioteer; kindness is the vehicle which carries her swiftly on her errands of mercy.
CANON H. D. M. SPENCE
JOSEPH S. EXELL & CHARLES NEIL, Thirty Thousand Thoughts
No good deed goes unpunished.
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE
attributed, On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes
If you want to live in a world of peace, encourage kindness, both in yourself and in those around you.
AYAMANATARA
365 Days to Enlightenment
More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is--our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?
JEAN MAALOUF
The Healing Power of Kindness
Kindness breaks no bones.
GERMAN PROVERB
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
C. NEIL STRAIT
attributed, Quote Unquote
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf
Kindness is like snow--it beautifies everything it covers.
CROFT M. PENTZ
The Complete Book of Zingers
One good turn asketh another.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
Kindness is a clear perennial spring, rising up from a heart replete with universal philanthropy, holding on its way, unimpeded by prejudices or partialities, and distributing its benefits alike upon all that it meets with in its course.
JOHN ANGELL JAMES
The Friend, Nov. 27, 1830
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The School Journal, Jan. 1909
Kindness is a bottomless fountain--not a river running outward. True kindness cannot be given away, it can only be shared; and in order to share the grace of kindness, we need to partake of it as well.
WILL GLENNON
Practice Random Acts of Kindness
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine
Kindness is closely linked with happiness: the kinder you are to others, the happier you will be.
MARY JAKSCH
Learn to Love
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
SAM LEVENSON
In One Era & Out the Other
The kindest souls are ever
Those who sin and suffer most,
And who thoughtfully endeavor
To forget whereof men boast.
EDWIN LEIBFREED
"When the Gentle Christ Was Tracing"
My true religion is kindness.
TENZIN GYATSO
Kindness
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
GEORGE H.W. BUSH
RNC acceptance speech, August 18, 1988
Kindness is not like a barter, so much for so much; or so much by contract, and my duty done. But kindness is like a righteousness or like a worship, not done unless it be done all I can. For the heart must run forth without measure like a child, and kindness be wound around like a child's arms about the neck, not by measure, but as tightly and as long as they can be.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
More than Kin