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Kindness Quotes and Sayings

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.
Author Unknown

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Attribe to T.H. Thompson & John Watson

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Frank A. Clark

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
Author Unknown

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

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life – reciprocity.
Confucius

Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
Author Unknown

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else’s.
Mignon McLaughlin

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
Saint Vincent de Paul

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
H. Jackson Brown

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.
Author Unknown

Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.
Mary Engelbreit

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
Jesse Jackson

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
Author Unknown

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling

Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer.
Mignon McLaughlin

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Author Unknown

A fellow who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them.
Albert Einstein

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

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

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Author Unknown

A kind word is like a Spring day.
Russian Proverb

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

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

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Chinese Proverb

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
Dave Barry

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Alexander Pope

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Bertrand Russell

If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind.
Alfred Fripp

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm

Love someone who doesn’t deserve it.
Author Unknown

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
Malcolm S. Forbes

There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.
Attribe to Zig Ziglar & Dr. Kenneth Mc Farland

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James Matthew Barrie

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
Karl Reiland

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax-deductible or not.
Dan Bennett

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie

If you step on people in this life, you’re going to come back as a cockroach.
Willie Davis

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.
Author Unknown

What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.
Cleveland Amory

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard

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

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