36 Quotes About Kindness

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Have you ever noticed how much of Christ's life was spent in doing kind things?

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Length of life should be measured not by the number of years but by the number of right actions.

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

With the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed, it is not speedily lost.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

If you want to be holy, be kind.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with.

Let us hide our pains and sorrows. But, while we hide them, let them also be spurs within us to urge us on to all manner of overflowing kindness and sunny humor to those around us. When the very darkness within us creates a sunshine around us, then has the spirit of Jesus taken possession of our souls.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.

Take life all through, its adversity as well as its prosperity, its sickness as well as its health, its loss of its rights as well as its enjoyment of them, and we shall find that no natural sweetness of temper, much less any acquired philosophical equanimity, is equal to the support of a uniform habit of kindness.

If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

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!

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking. Many persons, whose manners will stand the test of speaking, break down under the trial of listening. But all these things should be brought under the sweet influences of religion.

All doors open to courtesy.

Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Moreover, when we are inclined towards someone we can hardly preserve our heart in quietness; usually we will be stirred by our emotion to seek feverishly to please the other one.

If I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did when, just after His disciples has wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, "Ye are they which continue with Me in my temptations," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

As unkindness has no remedy at law, let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

After you have been kind, after Love has stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it.