Kindness

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

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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

MARK TWAIN

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!

GEORGE ELLISTON

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

LAO TZU

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

NATHANIEL BRANDEN

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

Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.

ANDREW ISKANDER

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

ALBERT SCHWEITZER

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

SOPHOCLES

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

JOSEPH JOUBERT

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

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

GEORGE SAND

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

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

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

SCOTT ADAMS

Kindness pardons others’ weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

EZRA TAFT BENSON

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

AESOP

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

SENECA

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

JAMES M. BARRIE

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

JOHN GERZEMA

Teaching kids good manners is teaching them about kindness, consideration, and respect.

CLAIRE STRANBERG

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
HENRY JAMES

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

AMELIA EARHART

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

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

KING SOLOMON

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage, or bravery, or generosity, or anything else… Kindness—that simple word. To be kind—it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.

ROALD DAHL

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love.

RICHARD GERE

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

BOB KERREY