Kindness Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

91 Kindness Quotes
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“Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
Scott Adams Quotes
“Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine Kind words and kind deeds”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes
“It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder”
Aldous Huxley Quotes
“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort”
Humphrey Davy Quotes
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
Blaise Pascal Quotes
“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.”
Bill Maher Quotes
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
François de la Rochefoucauld Quotes
“Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
Joseph Joubert Quotes
“Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
“Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes
Source: Festus (sc. Home)
“Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Till in Heaven the deed appears-- Pass it on.”
Rev. Henry Burton Quotes
Source: Pass It On
“I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader
“It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. [Lat., Sed tamen difficile dictu est, quantopere conciliat animos hominum comitas affabilitasque sermonis.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes
Source: De Officiis (II, 14)
“Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”
David Garrick Quotes
Source: Epilogue on Quitting the Stage
“And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes
Source: The Iliad (bk. XXIV, l. 523), (Pope's translation)
“Though he was rough, he was kindly.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Courtship of Miles Standish (pt. III)
“The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
Source: Mother Bombie (act III, sc. 1)
“There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.”
Gerald Massey Quotes
Source: There's no Dearth of Kindness
“He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., Colubram sustulit Sinuque fovet, contra se ipse misericors.]”
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia) Quotes
Source: Fables (bk. IV, 18)
“The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]”
Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus) Quotes
Source: Catilina (VI)
“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]”
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Quotes
Source: Thyestes (CCXIV)
“A little more than kin, and less than kind!”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, i)
“Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The best I had, a princess wrought it me-- And I did never ask it you again; And with my hand at midnight held your head, And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time, Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Arthur at IV, i)