Search my Quotes DataBase - Enter one or two keywords and/or an author last name. Hint: keep it simple, like life twain

Facebook share Tweet This Email this

Kindness Quotes - Compassion Quotes

May you find inspiration in these quotes about Kindness and Compassion.

People will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget

how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

Related topics: Inspirational Love Live-By Compassion Kindness Gentleness Feelings

Whatever you say, say with kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Kindness is better than piety.

- Yiddish Proverb

You cannot do a kindness too soon,

for you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.

Thank You,

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The smallest act of kindness

is worth more than the grandest intention.

- Oscar Wilde

One can not reflect in streaming water.

Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

- Lao Tzu

Give me your tired, your poor,

your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

- Joseph Joubert

What do we live for, if it is not

to make life less difficult for each other?

- George Eliot

Be kind whenever possible; and it is always possible.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Great people are those who make others feel

that they, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

Kind words can be short and easy to speak,

but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa

The brightest stars are those who

shine for the benefit of others.

- Anonymous

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

- Chinese proverb

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life

comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Give to your relatives, and to the needy, and to travelers.

Do not squander your wealth in wantonness.

- Quran 17:26

Nurturing is not complex.

It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you

and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

Wherever there is a human being,

there is an opportunity for a kindness.

- Seneca

We may have found a cure for most evils;

but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all,

the apathy of human beings.

- Helen Keller

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.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

Jesus replied:

"'Love the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

This is the first and greatest commandment.

And the second is like it:

'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

- Matthew 22:36-40

If I choose to bless another person,

I will always end up feeling more blessed.

- Marianne Williamson

People don't care how much you know

until they know how much they care.

- John C. Maxwell

Nobody cares how much you know,

until they know how much you care.

- attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, among others,

but probably earlier and anonymous

Indifference and neglect often

do much more damage than outright dislike.

- J. K. Rowling

For me, the most powerful expressions of true Christianity

in this material world are an unconditional love of all humans,

and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all

who are sick, infirm, or troubled -

as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Caring - Kindness - Compassion - Appreciation ...

It is my choice to care deeply about others.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is my choice to care deeply about others.

No kindness is too small to be important -

the smile to the bank teller,

the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,

the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.

There is compassion in selfless generosity,

but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Whatever you do, do with kindness.

Whatever you say, say with kindness.

Wherever you go, radiate kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

- Philo

Affirmation:

Today I choose the higher road -

the path of charity, acceptance,

love, selflessness, kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today, I choose the higher road -

the path of charity, acceptance, love, selflessness, kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The whole worth of a kind deed is

in the love that inspires it.

- The Talmud

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity

are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear,

and the blind can see.

- Mark Twain

Our opportunity is to visualize a kinder world.

To sing glad songs of tomorrow -

imagining a world of love -

of the whole world filled with love.

To offer our hand... often.

To breathe deeply and honor ourselves.

To pause and contemplate... just because.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can pay back the loan of gold,

but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

- Malayan Proverb

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.

- Anonymous

There are no small acts of kindness.

Every compassionate act makes large the world.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Kindness is the light that dissolves

all walls between souls, families, and nations.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

I expect to pass through this world but once.

Any good therefore that I can do,

or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature,

let me do it now.

Let me not defer or neglect it,

for I shall not pass this way again.

- William Penn

I radiate my kindness into the world.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Constant kindness can accomplish much.

As the sun makes ice melt,

kindness causes misunderstanding,

mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

- Albert Schweitzer

Kindness in words creates confidence.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love.

- Lao Tzu

There is no need for temples,

no need for complicated philosophies.

My brain and my heart are my temples;

my philosophy is kindness.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion.

There is no need for temples;

no need for complicated philosophy.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;

the philosophy is kindness.

- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We all tend to measure our worth by what we DO -

the actions we take.

We also highly value what we SAY.

However, the greatest impact we have

on our family, our friends,

and our world is our kindness and love.

A bowl of soup served with love

is a greater gift than a steak dinner served brusquely.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose the higher road -

the path of charity, acceptance, love,

selflessness, and kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know the power of kindness.

Whatever you do, do with kindness.

Whatever you say, say with kindness.

Wherever you go,

radiate your kindness to all.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet

as if they were going to be dead by midnight.

Extend to them all the care,

kindness and understanding you can muster,

and do with no thought of any reward.

Your life will never be the same again.

- Og Mandino

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.

- Emma Goldman

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;

however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love,

of kindness, of understanding, of peace.

Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God -

the rest will be given.

- Mother Teresa

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort

of feeling safe with a person;

having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,

but to pour them all out, just as they are,

chaff and grain together,

knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,

keep what is worth keeping, and then,

with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

- George Eliot

Feigned courtesy is a mere shadow of true kindness.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.

- Pearl S. Buck

The holiday season promotes

a heightened sense of community.

It draws our chins up and

helps us look above and over

the limiting fence of our own events,

activities and preoccupations.

The opportunity for a heroic gesture

can tap you quietly on the shoulder

in the midst of a holiday bustle.

If you are attentive,

you will notice the gentle touch

and will be able to respond. Remember...

There are no small acts of kindness.

Every compassionate act makes large the world.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

If we have no peace,

it is because we have forgotten

that we belong to each other.

- Mother Teresa

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.

- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is an exciting business,

and most exciting when it is lived for others.

- Helen Keller

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.

But the best name for God is compassion.

- Meister Eckhart

The best way to cheer yourself

is to try to cheer someone else up.

- Mark Twain

A generous heart, kind speech,

and a life of service and compassion

are the things which renew humanity.

- The Buddha

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

- Mother Teresa

For some of us, the world appears to provide

only a fixed quantity of each resource -

a limited amount of food, of money,

of love, of success, of appreciation.

For others, life is unlimited.

Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,

inventiveness, and service that they contribute.

In this world-view, money that is spent

or given away returns multiplied.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I teach one thing and one only:

that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

- The Buddha

Where there is charity and wisdom,

there is neither fear nor ignorance.

- St. Francis of Assisi

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

- Mother Teresa

Thank you for visiting: Quotes about Kindness and Compassion.

Please sign up on the form below to receive

my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.

You can also browse my large collection of Inspirational Quotes.

May the world be kind to you,

and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie