Sayings about Kindness
It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness. ~ Indian Proverbs
A kind word can attract even the snake from his nest. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury. ~ Islamic Proverb
Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.~ English Proverbs
Kind words are worth much and they cost little. ~ Traditional Proverb
Kindness begets kindness. ~ Greek Proverb
Kind words conquer. ~ Tamil Proverb
Welcome is the best cheer.~ Greek Proverb
Kind words will unlock an iron door. ~ Kurdish Proverbs
A word of kindness is better than a fat pie. ~ Russian Proverb
Better to do a kindness near home than go far away to burn incense. ~ Chinese Proverb
To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. ~ Traditional Proverb
He who is narrow of vision cannot be big of heart. ~ Chinese Proverb
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.~ Chinese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~ Japanese Proverbs
A kind word warms for three winters.~ Chinese Proverb
Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. ~ Traditional Proverb
Live in my heart and pay no rent.~ Irish Proverbs
Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble. ~ French Proverb
With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair. ~ Persian Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Do not forget little kindnesses and do not remember small faults. ~ Chinese Proverb
The greatest wisdom of all is kindness. ~ Hebrew Proverbs
Unfading are the gardens of kindness. ~ Greek Proverbs
A kind word is like a spring day. ~ Russian Proverbs
Gold is a debt we can repay, but kindness not till our dying day. ~ Malawian Proverb
The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner. ~ Hebrew Proverb
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~ Chinese Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind. ~ Malay Proverb
Quotations about Kindness
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution. ~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.~ Author Unknown
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.~ Charles Fenno Hoffman
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.~ A. Neilen
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.~ Frank A. Clark
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.~ Samuel Johnson
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.~ Robert Alan
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.~ Kin Hubbard
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it’s a very deep matter.~ Alice Childress
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop
Kindness is for all times in all situations — not just when it suits you.~ Audray Landrum
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.~ William John Bennett
There is nothing so kingly as kindness.~ Alice Cary
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.~ James M. Barrie
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. ~ Sophocles
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. ~ Joseph Joubert
Kindness, the poetry of the heart. ~ Aime Martin
My true religion is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama Quotes
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~ Samuel Johnson Quotes
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.~ Theodore I. Rubin
Kindness is, of the bounteous tree, which we all so oft do seek to become sustained by. ~ Marc Anthony
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life, but needs it and may learn. ~ Philip James Bailey
Kindness is the touch of an angel’s hand. ~ James L. Gordon
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave — and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.~ Alice Childress
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.~ Mother Teresa Quotes
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kindness is something you have received and have to pass on in order to keep it.~ Author Unknown
Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical. ~ James L. Gordon
Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.~ Author Unknown
Kind people are the best kind of people. ~ Author Unknown
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.~ Lao-Tzu
Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness. ~ Lewis F. Korns
Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road. ~ James L. Gordon
They are always saying God loves us. If that’s love I’d rather have a bit of kindness. ~ Graham Greene
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.~ Sir Arthur Helps
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.~ Randolph Ray
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Kindness is just love with its work boots on.~ Author Unknown
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return. ~ Lewis B. Smedes
A small unkindness is a great offence. ~ Hannah More
Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. ~ Confucius Quotes
It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you.~ Cort Flint
Real kindness seeks no return. ~ Thiruvalluvar
Kindness is the greatest wisdom. ~ Author Unknown
Kindness is virtue itself. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.~ Eric Hoffer
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hairs. ~ Octave Feuillet
Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.~ Mother Teresa Quotes
Be kind, generous and loving in your thoughts, words and actions.~ Ann Sykes Walter
Kindness is a hard thing to give away. It keeps coming back to the giver.~ Ralpb Scott
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Without kindness, there can be no true joy.~ Thomas Carlyle
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.~ Philo
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
As perfume is to the flower, so is kindness to speech.~ Katherine Francke
Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can. ~ Andrew Iskander
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ~ The Talmud
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.~ John Ruskin
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe. ~ Dawna Markova
To walk in kindness is to walk in the way of Christ. ~ J. Rodman Williams
Kindness is like snow; it makes everything it covers beautiful.~ Author Unknown
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.~ Joseph Joubert
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.~ Blaise Pascal
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world. ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.~ Barbara De Angelis
Kindness is the touch of heaven, a reminder of the covenant of the unseen. ~ Mark Anthony
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 Quotes
Kindness is wisdom.~ Philip James Bailey
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.~ Publilius Syrus
I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other…. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!~ Henry Drummond
Kindness is the very essence of the Eternal, the root of all existence, the primal font of all blessedness in all worlds. ~ David Thomas
Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. ~ James L. Gordon
When one person shows kindness to another person, God shows up. ~ Steve Sjogren
Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven’s sweetest tunes on earth. ~ Elihu Burritt
Kindness gives birth to kindness. ~ Sophocles
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~ Author Unknown
Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see.~ Author Unknown
How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it! ~ George Elliston
