Quotes on Kindness and Sharing
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

The kindness planned for tomorrow does not count for today.

Unknown

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.

Quincy Jones

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Frank A. Clark

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Elbert Hubbard

There's put-down humor, where a person or a group of people is the target of cruelty in the guise of a "joke." And then there's inclusive humor — the kind I practice and promote in my work. Inclusive humor means everyone is included in the laughter and it isn't at anyone else's expense.

Lynn Grasberg

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Seneca

The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.

Samuel Smiles

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.

St. Basil

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Johnson

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Leroy Jack Syrop

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

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