I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
~By William Falconer ~
I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~By Georg Brandes ~
I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.
~By Cole Younger ~
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
~By George Sand ~
I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~By Graham Greene ~
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
~By Bob Schaffer ~
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
~By Vachel Lindsay ~
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
~By Nelson DeMille ~
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
~By Abu Bakr ~
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
~By Bo Bennett ~
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
~By Confucius ~
I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!
~By Joanna Trollope ~
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
~By Emma Goldman ~
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
~By Tilda Swinton ~
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
~By Saadi ~
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
~By Washington Irving ~
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
~By Sophocles ~
I love Philadelphia. I was shocked at what a great city this is. For me, it is the cat's pajamas. I love everything about it. I love where I live. I love the people. I have been met with such kindness and affection here.
~By George Dzundza ~
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
~By Benjamin Jowett ~
Kindness is wisdom.
~By Philip James Bailey ~
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
~By Humphry Davy ~
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
~By Richard Gere ~
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
~By Marcel Proust ~
I go now before the milk of Human kindness goes sour for me.
~By Philip Francis ~
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~By Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
~By Princess Diana ~
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
~By George A. Smith ~
It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.
~By Nicolas Chamfort ~
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
~By Grantland Rice ~
Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.
~By David D. Burns ~
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~By John Ruskin ~
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
~By Grantland Rice ~
If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
~By Roma Downey ~
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
~By Saint Basil ~
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
~By George Dennison Prentice ~
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
~By Willa Cather ~
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~By Theodore Isaac Rubin ~
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~By Charles Kuralt ~
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
~By Hugh Leonard ~
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
~By Gerald Massey ~
Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Everyone responds to kindness.
~By Richard Gere ~
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
~By Mark Twain ~
Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
~By Sophocles ~
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
~By Lao Tzu ~
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
~By Svetlana Alliluyeva ~
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
~By Aesop ~
Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
~By Tony Snow ~
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
~By Frederick William Faber ~
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~By Joseph Joubert ~
They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.
~By Graham Greene ~
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
~By Bea Arthur ~
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
~By Blu Cantrell ~
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
~By J. Donald Walters ~
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
~By Preston Brooks ~
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Well, I'll tell you something, this wedding is something that I will always, always cherish. It was a show of love and support and kindness like I'd never seen from the people, and that's who I entertain. I entertain the people.
~By Liza Minnelli ~
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
~By Nellie Bly ~
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
~By George MacDonald ~
The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
~By Princess Diana ~
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
~By Charles Sturt ~
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~By Dalai Lama ~
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
~By Caroline Kennedy ~
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~By Aesop ~
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.
~By Ruben Studdard ~
Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.
~By James Oliver ~
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.
~By George Santayana ~
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
~By Patrick White ~
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
~By Harvey Ball ~
Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
~By Dalai Lama ~
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
~By King Solomon ~
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
~By Amy Tan ~
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
~By Libby Houston ~
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