Quotes about Kindness
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
- Oscar Wilde
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.
- Confucius
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
- Confucius
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
- Confucius
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
- Confucius
Tsze-Kung asked, "Is there one word with which to act in accordance throughout a lifetime?" The Master said, "Is not reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
- Confucius
What you dont want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.
- Cormac McCarthy
Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness.
- DH Lawrence