Kindness Quotes And Sayings

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“Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.”
– Marc Estrin

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
– Margaret Mead

“Kindness is the touch of heaven, a reminder of the covenant of the unseen.”
– Mark Anthony

“Kindness is, of the bounteous tree, which we all so oft do seek to become sustained by.”
– Mark Anthony

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain

“Kindness is closely linked with happiness: the kinder you are to others, the happier you will be.”
– Mary Jaksch

“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.”
– Maya Angelou

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
– Maya Angelou

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa

“Kindness is helpful to the happiness of both recipient and giver. Who does not feel happier on showing kindness to others, and who does not feel happier on receiving the manifestation of kindness? Deeds of kindness shown in the little things of life constitute man’s chief happiness. Many are not able to do any great things for others, but all can find abundant opportunity of showing little deeds of kindness which will add much to the happiness of mankind.”
– Nicias Ballard Cooksey

“How much easier it is to act kindly and naturally to our fellow men, and even to the domestic, useful and faithful animals about us, than to effect a rude and boisterous demeanor, which is sure not only to make others despise us, but on reflection to cause us to despise ourselves.”
– Nicias Ballard Cooksey

“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

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”
– Pablo Casals

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
– Pearl S. Buck

“Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making _less_ effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.”
– Piero Ferrucci

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato

“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Choose being kind over being right, and you’ll be right every time.”
– Richard Carlson

“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

“A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.”
– Russian Proverb

“Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
– Scott Adams

“Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness.”
– Seneca

“Kindness is the spirit in which we are to live. Our lives are never full and abundant until the spirit of kindness is our ordinary way of living.”
– Sheldon B. Stephenson

“Kindness begets kindness evermore.”
– Sophocles

“Any good … that I can do or any kindness 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.”
– Stephen Grellet

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