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Quotes on Kindness.

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
~Frank Tyger

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
~Author Unknown

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~Mark Twain

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca

A kind word is like a Spring day.
~Russian Proverb

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
~Samuel Johnson

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.
~Confucius

Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
~Author Unknown

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
~Mark Twain

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.
~Adam Lindsay Gordon

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
~George Washington Carver

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
~John Wooden

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
~Author Unknown

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
~William Wordsworth

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
~Plato

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
~Frank A. Clark

The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.
~Author Unknown

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
~Epictetus

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
~Malayan Proverb

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
~Marian Wright Edelman

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
~Leo Buscaglia

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
~Chinese Proverb

As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.
~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977

There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Have you had a kindness shown?
Pass it on;
'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
~Henry Burton, Pass It On

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.
~Saint Vincent de Paul

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.
~Author Unknown

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.
~Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit