Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Week from February 11 to 17 with this comprehensive collection of quotations. For more information about this event go to - this website
- "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
-- Scott Adams - "Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!"
-- Henri F. Amiel - "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
-- Barbara De Angelis - "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne."
-- Marcus Aurelius - "Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
-- Sir James Matthew Barrie - "A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."
-- Saint Basil - "Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love and His kindness go on forever."
-- 1 Chronicles 16:34 TLB Bible (15th-16th century) - "When one begins to purposefully perform acts of kindness, the spirit changes and soon doing good deeds becomes a focal point for our life; doing good begins to be the same as feeling good. The periods of emptiness when we search for the "meaning of it all" begin to fill with acts of kindness."
-- Gary Ryan Blair - "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 - "Truth is generally kindness, but where the two diverge and collide, kindness should override truth."
-- Samuel Butler - "Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above."
-- Julia A. Fletcher Carney - "Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you."
-- Edgar Cayce - "Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart."
-- Henry Clay - "To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
-- Confucius - "A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
-- Richard Dehmel - "Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
-- Charles Dickens - "Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others."
-- Henry Drummond - "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
- "As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech."
-- Katherine Francke - "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- "When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
-- Margaret Fuller - "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
-- Kahlil Gibran - "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
-- Kahlil Gibran - "When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And, it'll become like a wildfire."
-- Whoopi Goldberg - "No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every try education should be to unlock that treasure."
-- Emma Goldman - "Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone -- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own."
-- Adam L. Gordon - "I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-- Stephan Grellet - "When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."
-- Abraham Heschel - "Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
-- Eric Hoffer - "There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. "
-- John Andrew Holmes - "When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
-- Libby Houston - "How easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles."
-- Washington Irving - "Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
-- Henry James - "The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace."
-- Jennifer James - "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-- Dr. Samuel Johnson - "Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you."
-- Dr. Samuel Johnson - "Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you."
-- Dan Kelly - "The effects of kindness are not always seen immediately, Sometimes it takes years until your kindness will pay off, And is returned to you. And sometimes you never see the fruits of your labors, But they are there, Deep inside of the soul of the one you touched."
-- Dan Kelly - "There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late."
-- Charles Kingsley - "We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy."
-- Dean Koontz - "When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, "Yes, this is how I ought to feel.""
-- Harold Kushner - "Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."
-- Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire - "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."
-- Dalai Lama - "Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another."
-- Walter Savage Landor - "Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?"
-- Lawrence G. Lovasik - "Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world."
-- Lawrence G. Lovasik - "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 it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."
-- Og Mandino - "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
-- W. Somerset Maugham - "We were lost and dead in sin. We were by nature objects of God's wrath. But God Loved us! That Love caused Him to do something about our situation. God is rich in mercy, so He made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. God acted on His Love for us and saved us by His Grace! Grace is the result of the actions of His Love. The remarkable thing about His Grace is that He didn't ask us to do anything but believe Him. God didn't ask us to perform some great deed. He didn't demand obedience from us before He would save us. God made us alive with Christ "even when we were dead in transgressions and sins.-- God is showing the universe "the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus."
-- (Ephesians 2:7) - "God was Kind to us "in" Christ because He Loved us."
-- Mark McGee - "Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices."
-- Albert Pike - "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
-- Plato - "You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find- you're never sorry you were kind."
-- Herb Prochnow - "Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with."
-- American Proverb - "A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away."
-- Arabian Proverb - "Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it."
-- Arabian Proverb - "The goal of compassion is not to care because someone is like us but to care because they are themselves."
-- Mary Lou Randour - "Kindness is the life's blood, the elixir of marriage. Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love ... Kindness is good will. Kindness says, 'I want you to be happy.' Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God."
-- Randolph Ray - "Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas."
-- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson - "Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd US President - "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
-- Theodore Isaac Rubin - "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
-- Albert Schweitzer - "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
-- Seneca - "Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none."
-- William Shakespeare - "Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower."
-- S. H. Simmons - "Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer - "You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
-- Ruth Smeltzer - "It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself."
-- Robert Merton Solow - "Through His redemptive work we are "justified from all things" (Acts 13:38,39) and now rejoice in "the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 2:4-6), "all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ" (Eph. 1:3) and "the hope of the glory of God" (Rom. 5:2), to be fully realized when we are "caught up together...to meet the Lord in the air" (1 Thess. 4:17). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart: "That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:7)."
-- Cornelius Stam - "Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."
-- C. Neil Strait - "Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things."
-- Madame Swetchine - "I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."
-- Mother Teresa - "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-- Mother Teresa - "Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house...let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
-- Mother Teresa - "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 - "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
-- Mother Teresa - "We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" --
Henry David Thoreau - "In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
-- Brian Tracy - "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read."
- "If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
-- Mary Webb - ". . . that best portion of a good man's life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love."
-- William Wordsworth - "The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life."
-- William Wordsworth - "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."
-- William Wordsworth
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