Quotes: Kindness

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

- Albert Schweitzer

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

- William Wordsworth

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

- Mother Teresa

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

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

- George Sand

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

- Anita Roddick

The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.

- Albert Einstein

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

- SUSAN B ANTHONY (1820-1906) American reformer

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle

- Plato -