Kindness Quotes

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

Wisdom, Important, Beginning

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

Love, Women, Win

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Mason Cooley

Money, Everything, Almost

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

Good, Art, Football

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

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
Sophocles

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams

Strangers, Depended

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

Through, Made, Keep

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

Friend, Possession, Whoever

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

Made, Become, Motive

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

Money, Him, After

But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
Dave Matthews

Hope, Beautiful, Bravery

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

End, Remember, Small

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
Jennifer Aniston

Humor, Equality, Integrity

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.
Michelle Obama

Good, Husband, Care

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

Enemy, Friend, Show

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

Greed, Makes, Everyday

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

Success, Small, Act

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
Carlos Santana

Music, Down, Compassion

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

Men, Words, Reputation

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

Truth, Human, Real

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.
Wesley Morris

Love, Fool, Woman

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.
Brian Eno

Either, Authority, Reward

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
Carol Burnett

Good, Selfish, Help

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor

Judge, Job, Play

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

Learn, Deal, Paradise

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

Universe, Knows, Perhaps

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publilius Syrus

Cannot, Force, Accomplish

Everyone responds to kindness.
Richard Gere

Everyone, Responds

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

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