KINDNESS
Addison, Joseph
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.
Aleyn
The true and noble way to kill a foe, is not to kill him; you, with kindness, may so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he's slain.
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
Ask thyself, daily, to how many ill-minded persons thou hast shown a kind disposition.
Bailey, Gamaliel
Kindness is wisdom; there is none in life but needs it, and may learn.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.
Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.
Baillie, Joanna
He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl.
Bentham, Thomas
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. —Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.—Once blest are all the virtues; twice blest, sometimes.
Beranger, Pierre Jean
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
Bovee, Christian Nestell
Kindness is a language the dumb can speak, and the deaf can hear and understand.
Bowers, George Hull
The kindness of some is too much like the echo, returning the counterpart of what it receives, not more, and sometimes less.
Brooks, Phillips
It is good for us to think no grace or blessing truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George
Kindness seems to come with a double grace and tenderness from the old.—It seems in them the hoarded and long purified benevolence of years, as if it had survived and conquered the baseness and selfishness of the ordeal it had passed—as if the winds which had broken the form, had swept in vain across the heart, and the frosts which had chilled the blood, and whitened the thin locks, had no power over the warm tide of the affections.
Burleigh, William Cecil, Lord
Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
Byron, George Gordon Noel
Heaven in sunshine will requite the kind.
The drying up a single tear, has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
Child, Mrs. Lydia M.
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Davy, Sir Humphrey
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Demosthenes
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
Eliot, George
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Feuillet, Octave
Kindness is the only charm permitted to the aged; it is the coquetry of white hair.
Godet, Frederic L.
What we do for ours while we have them, will be precisely what will render their memory sweet to the heart when we no longer have them.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Hall, John
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts, and warm handshakes—these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles.
Hooker, Herman
There will come a time when three words, uttered with charity and meekness, shall receive a far more blessed reward, than three thousand volumes written with disdainful sharpness of wit. But the manner of men's writing must not alienate our hearts from the truth, if it appear they have the truth.
Irving, Washington
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
Johnson, Samuel
To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Kingsley, Charles
Make a rule, and pray to God to help you to keep it, never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say: "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day."
Landor, Walter Savage
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Locke, John
Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds.
More, Hannah
Since trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs; since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, and few can save or serve, but all may please: let the ungentle spirit learn from thence, a small unkindness is a great offense.
Pascal, Blaise
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.
Penn, William
I expect to pass through life but once.—If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Prentice, George D.
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
Richter, Jean Paul
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Robertson, Frederick William
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.
Sala, George Augustus
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly, by words, tones, gestures, looks, that affection is won and preserved.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
I had rather never receive a kindness, than never bestow one.—Not to return a benefit is the greater sin, but not to confer it, is the earlier.
Shakespeare, William
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand open as day for melting charity.
Smiles, Samuel
The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice.
Smith, Sydney
You may find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and two-pence.
Stael, Madam de
Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Stanley, Arthur P.
Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow. Each may have fixed in his mind the thought that out of a single household may flow influences that shall stimulate the whole commonwealth and the whole civilized world.
Sterne, Lawrence
The happiness of life may be greatly increased by small courtesies in which there is no parade, whose voice is too still to tease, and which manifest themselves by tender and affectionate looks, and little kind acts of attention.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Tupper, Martin Farquhar
I have sped much by land, and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers
We cannot be just unless we are kind-hearted.
Wordsworth, William
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
