Kindness Quotes

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

Good, Knowledge, Alone

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Heart, Simple

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Heart, Brain, Philosophy

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Simple

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran

Silence, Ungrateful, Strange

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

Language, Hear, Blind

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa

Love, Peace, Money

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

Religion, Compassion, Anyone

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Life, Today, Care

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Love, Confidence, Thinking

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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
John Ruskin

Money, Great, Thought

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

Deserve, Loving, Consists

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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward

Smile, Language, Universal

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

Knowledge, Someone, Same

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude, Feeling, Natural

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck

Love, Success, Men

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

Cannot, Late, Soon

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius

Perfect, Soul, Sincerity

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Happiness, Truth

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
Joseph Joubert

Deserve, Loving

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

Yourself, Done, Another

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Ellen DeGeneres

Equality, Honesty, Compassion

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

Live, Compassion, Looking

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

Love, Friendship, Good

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Human, Free, Tough

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Sun, Makes, Accomplish

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

Education, Sympathy, True

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, Everything, Discovered

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Small, Matter, Act

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