Quotes about Kindness
I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
- Mother Teresa
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
- Brene Brown
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
- Ayn Rand
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
- William Law
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
- Henry David Thoreau
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.
- Max Lucado
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
- Pierre Corneille
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
- George Eliot
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
- Richard Paul Evans
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
- Publilius Syrus
A kindness is never wasted.
- Aesop
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
- George H. W. Bush