Kindness Quotes

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings."

"Before you say an unkind word – think of someone who can't speak."

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."

"Be kind to your enemies; you have nothing to lose but your enmity."

"Malice cannot grow where humility and kindness dwell."

"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"

"Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those raised up by the accidents of life into a position of dependency on you."

"We must include the animals in our moral concern and compass."

"The good deed done in obscurity is the most noble of all."

"Kindness is not weakness but the strength of a disciplined and virtuous soul."

"Kindness toward the opponent and respect for the adversary's argument elevates all discourse."

"The warmth of a grateful heart is the greatest blessing."

"A good deed is never lost; it may serve as a bright example for others."

"The greatest act of charity is the instruction of the ignorant."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"The heart that is inflated with kindness will not find space for hatred."

"If you judge another harshly, you reveal your own deficiencies."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it."

"The greatest gift you can give another is your attention."

"The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."

"Begin each day by telling yourself: I will encounter a busybody, an ungrateful man, an egotist, a liar, the unchaste. Ignorance is the cause of all these things."

"A person who despises himself will yet despise others, and will often treat them badly."

"When you were a king and I an exile, you did not treat me as a stranger."

"True hospitality means the stranger becomes the friend."

"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident."

"The cultivation of kindness without undermining justice creates only weakness in the social order."

"To live by charity is the highest and most noble form of human action."

"Mercy is the greatest of all virtues."

"Envy is destructive because it grieves at another's good as if it were an evil to oneself."

"The greatest pleasure is to do a good deed by stealth and have it found out by accident."