Kindness Quotes - Page 26

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

  Dalai Lama

  Able, Helping, Operations

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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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• As we put into all our schools more humane education, and foster the spirit of justice and kindness toward the "lower" creatures, just as soon shall we reach the roots not only of cruelty but of crime.

  Miriam A. Ferguson

  School, Roots, Justice

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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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• The hottest coals of fire ever heaped upon the head of one who has wronged you are the coals of human kindness.

  Sterling W Sill

  Fire, Coal, Hottest

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• I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

  Gilbert Harding

  Milk, Trouble, Damn

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• Kindness like light speaks in the air it gilds.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Light, Air, Speak

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• The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

  Confucius

  Art, Home, Brotherhood

  Confucius (2014). “THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• A kindness is never wasted

  Aesop

  Aesop (2014). “The Aesop for Children”, p.243, First Avenue Editions

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• I came out of the nine-hour surgery and I had tubes in every direction, and those nurses at the Mayo Clinic, I could cry for four days at the kindness of those nurses. The care, the detail of the care, the attention that just never wavered, never complained. The love.

  Eve Ensler

  Nurse, Nine, Details

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

  Alistair Begg

  Father, Church, Looks

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• Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Powerful, Doors, Iron

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2015

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• To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want to change anyone, set a better example. Show more kindness, more understanding, more love. That has a
  sure effect. To those who are not kind, show kindness. To those who are mean, show bigness of heart.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Love You, Heart, Mean

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

  Bo Lozoff

  Opportunity, Each Day, World

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

  Susan Meissner

  Girl, Thinking, Able

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• Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.

  David Samuels

  Common, Virtue

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• The world seems to me excruciatingly, almost painfully beautiful at times, and the goodness and kindness of people often exceed that which even I expect.

  Lois W.

  Beautiful, People, World

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• I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

  Robert Herjavec

  Mistake, Nice, Guy

  "Here's Why You Shouldn't Always Take The First Offer On 'Shark Tank'" by Vivian Giang, shark475.rssing.com. November 23, 2013.

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• Dalai Lama once said that 'My religion is simple. My religion is kindness.' This is a great thought! Humanity has never seen and will never see any religion better than this! Seek no religion other than the religion of kindness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Simple, Humanity, Said

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• Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ego, Ugly, Shows

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• Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Heart, Names, Done

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• Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Lonely, Business

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