Quotes About Kindness 3

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

Industry, economy, honesty, and kindness form a quartet of virtues that will never be improved upon.

James Oliver

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

John Steinbeck

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

Publilius Syrus

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Mencius

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

King Solomon

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Mason Cooley