There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

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.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

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.

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

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

I think the essence of [Kurt] Vonnegut's humanism lay in his emphasis on human kindness as, so to speak, our saving grace.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

Speaking with kindness creates confidence, thinking with kindness creates profoundness, giving with kindness creates love.

That which you give to another will become your own sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

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