These may be the most memorable quotes about kindness on the Internet. But even if they aren't, you're sure to find at least one in this assortment that will be exactly what you're looking for.
Kindness may be life's most important attribute. Think of the people you love—especially the people who have had the greatest influence on you—and every one of them will be kind.
In fact, you cannot be great without being kind. This is a Christian web site where we honor Jesus Christ. He was unfailingly kind to people he met, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, uplifting the discouraged.
His sacrificial death on the cross was the kindest, most loving act ever performed in the history of humanity.
So enjoy the most memorable quotes about kindness. If you take them to heart, they're sure to make you a wiser, more valuable person.
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.
John E. Southard
Life's most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Philo
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger
No one is living aright unless he so lives that whoever meets him goes away more confident and joyous for the contact.
Lilian Whiting
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
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
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you--until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire--until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful or happy.
Napoleon Hill
Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.
John Hall
When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
Harold Kushner
Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.
John Wesley
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Bradley Miller
We know we are Christians if love is the dominating force in our lives.
Billy Graham
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Harold Kushner
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Frank A. Clark
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
Charles Kuralt
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
Frank A. Clark
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
Charles Fenno Hoffman
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
God's love will flow through us to others when we alone do not have the power to love.
Arthur H. DeKruyter
Must we do big things, noticed by many, to ensure God's approval, or are we content with the quiet, faithful service that may be the means to redeeming our little corner of the world?
Dan B. Allender
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
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