Quotes about Kindness
The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him
— CS Lewis
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
— Henri Nouwen
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
— Seneca
In order to have friends, you must first be one.
— Elbert Hubbard
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
— Dale Carnegie
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.
— India Arie
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
— Jacques Maritain
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
— Mother Teresa
To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
— Pope Francis