Inspirational Quotes on Kindness

“He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.”

“With the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed, it is not speedily lost.”

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"”

“Moreover, when we are inclined towards someone we can hardly preserve our heart in quietness; usually we will be stirred by our emotion to seek feverishly to please the other one.”

“King: ...But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son, — Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, but less than kind.”

“Oh! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach, but let no man reject it, for it is one that all must learn, and is a mighty, universal Truth. When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.”