Kindness Quotes

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox

Change, Today, Yourself

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden

Respect, Others, Treat

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

Heart, True, Laugh

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

Great, Nothing, Stand

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

Yourself, Give, Regret

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

Love, Difference, Bless

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

Power, Fondness

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
Carrie Fisher

Good, Christmas, Christian

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Powerful, Laughter

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

Life, Love, Best

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

Human, Wherever

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
Dennis Prager

Courage, Character, Integrity

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

Life, Love, Good

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Sunshine, Virtue, Grows

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

Knowledge, Pain, Doctor

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
Sofia Vergara

Women, Respect, End

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

Life, Money, Business

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Humphry Davy

Life, Great, Heart

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.
George Eliot

Angry, May, Ignorant

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

Home, Long, Times

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

Judge, Become, Deed

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.
Kiana Tom

Respect, Everyone, Treat

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

True, Stupidity, Rather

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

Friend, Accept, Show

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

Love, Women, Win

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

Economy, Prosperity, Decency

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

Find, Show, Actions

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
Thomas Fuller

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wisdom, Find, Greater

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

Men, Revenge, Injuries

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