Kindness Quotes - Page 25

• In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

  Graham Greene

  Lying, Thousand, Humans

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• Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

  Steve Forbes

  Inspirational, Integrity, Nice

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• Now, I appeal to the consciences of those that persecute, torment, destroy, and kill other men upon pretence of religion, whether they do it out of friendship and kindness towards them or no? I say, if all this be done merely to make men Christians and procure their salvation, why then do they suffer whoredom, fraud, malice and such-like enormities, which (according to the Apostle) manifestly relish of heathenish corruption, to predominate so much and abound amongst their flocks and people?

  John Locke

  Christian, Men, People

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• They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

  Graham Greene

  Literature, God Love, Bits

  Graham Greene (1988). “The Captain and the Enemy”

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• Wave after wave of trial rolled over us; but at the end of the year some of us were constrained to confess, that we had learned more of the loving-kindness of the Lord than in any previous year of our lives.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Years, Trials

  "Hudson Taylor and China's Open Century, Book Five: Refiner's Fire". Book by A.J. Broomhall (p. 285), 1985.

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• All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

  John Wesley

  Joy, Worldly

  John Wesley (1825). “Sermons on several occasions [ed. by T. Jackson].”, p.379

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• Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Children, Father

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• We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

  George A. Smith

  Loving Life, Air, Common

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• 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.

  William Law

  Charity, Merit, Persons

  William Law (1848). “A serious call to a devout and holy life. with an intr. essay by D. Young”, p.95

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• Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

  John Locke

  Errors, Mediocrity, Might

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• I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

  Kenneth Clark

  Hurt, Believe, People

  Kenneth Clark, British Broadcasting Corporation (1970). “Civilization”, London : British Broadcasting Corporation

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• I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Hopeful, Innovation

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

  Virgil

  Overcoming, May, Fortune

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• I think if all men knew and understood who they are, and were aware of the divine source from whence they came, they would have feelings of kindness and kinship for each other that would change their whole way of living and bring peace on earth.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Men, Thinking, Feelings

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• I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

  David McCullough

  Writing, Curiosity, Library

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Ignorance, Sleep, Cover Ups

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• The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

  Saint Augustine

  Men

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• What is my religion? Simple. Kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Simple

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• Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spontaneous, Values

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 115 (May 1781)

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• Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Remember

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• Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Dog, Tails, Wags

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• Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

  Sara Paretsky

  Stranger, Kinder

  "Total Recall". Book by Sara Paretsky, 2001.

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• In scattering seeds of kindness, do it by hand and not by machine.

  George Ade

  Hands, Machines, Seeds

  George Ade (1915). “Knocking the neighbors”

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• Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

  Albert Collins

  Baby, Mistake, Weakness

  Song: Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness, Album: Iceman, 1991

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• They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it,
  I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss;
  And until they can show me some happier planet.
  More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

  Michael Moore

  May, Bliss, Hours

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