Quotes about Kindness
Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.
- Cicero
I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.
- Jon Gordon
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
- Marcus Aurelius
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
- Napoleon Hill
What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?
- RC Sproul
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
- Ashley Montagu
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
- Herman Melville
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
- John Milton
Persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should be adopted to influence the conduct of men. The opposite course would be a reversal of human nature, which is God's decree and can never be reversed.
- Abraham Lincoln
A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.
- Charles Spurgeon
A person who is assured of the love of God will see his fellow men in a different light and treat them and himself differently, and of course this also applies to business leaders.
- Desmond Tutu
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.
- Margaret Atwood