Inspirational Quotes on Kindness

“Take life all through, its adversity as well as its prosperity, its sickness as well as its health, its loss of its rights as well as its enjoyment of them, and we shall find that no natural sweetness of temper, much less any acquired philosophical equanimity, is equal to the support of a uniform habit of kindness.”

“After you have been kind, after Love has stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it.”

“Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.”

“We have attempted to reduce all virtues to kindness. Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If being cowardly, conceited, and slothful, you have never done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbors welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, your self approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty. Even a good emotion, pity, if not controlled by charity and justice leads through anger to cruelty. Most atrocities are stimulated by accounts of the enemies atrocities and pity for the suppressed classes when separated from the moral law as a whole leads by a very natural process to the unremitting brutalities of a rein of terror.”

“Kindness makes a person attractive. If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.”

“Length of life should be measured not by the number of years but by the number of right actions.”

“We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.”

“As unkindness has no remedy at law, let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”

“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.”

“Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.”

“If I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did when, just after His disciples has wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, "Ye are they which continue with Me in my temptations," then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”

“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.”

“A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.”

“The person who sows seeds of kindness enjoys a perpetual feast.”

“If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“If you want to be holy, be kind.”

“It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.”

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

“The right kind of heart is a kind heart like God's.”