Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Kindness

I don’t care how much you know until I know how much you care.
Unknown

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
The Bhagavad Gita Hindu Scripture

The worst prison is a closed heart.
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) Polish Catholic Religious Leader

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances, it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand A. Russell (1872–1970) British Philosopher, Mathematician, Social Critic

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright

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.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American Poet, Journalist

Kindness has more power than compulsion.
Unknown

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Religious Leader, Civil Rights Leader, Philosopher, Author

True happiness consists in making others happy.
Indian Proverb

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.
Cleveland Amory (1917–98) American Writer, Animal Rights Activist

He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others’ good, is a poor, frozen churl.
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) Scottish Playwright, Poet

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author

Handle yourself, use head; Handle others, use heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong.
Unknown

Getting money is not all a man’s business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) Italian Poet, Philosopher

The last, best fruit that comes late to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt (1934–97) American Journalist, TV Personality

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

One of things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American Comedian, Civil Rights Activist

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother’s shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.
Whoopi Goldberg (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Musician, Political Activist, TV Personality

Compassion is an alternate perception
M. C. Richards (1916–99) American Poet, Potter, Writer

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope (1903–2003) British-born American Comedian

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American Dramatist

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