Quotes about Kindness
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
- Audrey Hepburn
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
- Harold S. Kushner
No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.
- Charles Spurgeon
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- Marianne Williamson
Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
- John Wooden
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.
- Mother Teresa
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
- Ambrose of Milan
There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.
- Confucius
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
- Leo Buscaglia
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Kindness is the essence of greatness.
- Joseph Wirthlin
It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.
- Tertullian