Quotessence
Home / Topics / Kindness Quotes

Kindness Quotes

Browse 6203 quotes about Kindness.

Related topics

KindIfsPeopleCompassionWorldMenHumansGivingThinkingHeartActs Of KindnessWayBe KindKnowsNeedsKindness And CompassionMayLoving KindnessLittlesInspirationalLifePersonsGenerosityHelpingShouldLove And KindnessFeelsWantBelieveGoodness And KindnessShowsHuman KindnessGoodnessWellsMindLoveDoeChildrenFeelingsMeanSelfMatterImportantInspirational KindnessSoulTryingCareSpiritualHandsActionAnd LoveCrueltyLongQualityFirstsHas BeensMadeSometimesUnderstandingWords Of KindnessHuman BeingsPracticeSimpleSpiritSufferingThoughtfulTreatsCharityDeedsGentlenessDoneGraceLooksRandom Acts Of KindnessRememberVirtueCan DoJoyMightCourtesyEndsMercyRealReturnTodayWishCharacterEvilGenerosity And KindnessInspirationJusticeSaidBeautifulEyeFacesGrowsLife IsLove IsSeemsChristianmore

Kindness Quotes

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

WayWisdomNationsPeaceAnimalKindnessGreatnessIntegrityCreaturesCaringTreatedCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsJudgedVegetarianismAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyLiving CreaturesAnimal LoveDog LoverVegetarian HealthHuman AnimalAnimal WorldSentient BeingsHumans And AnimalsPlants And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeFactory FarmingAnimal CompassionDog RescueAnimal EthicsEating AnimalsAnimal AbuseGreat PetVivisectionVegan HealthInspirational DogInspirational AnimalAnimals In NatureKindness To AnimalsVegetarian FoodAnimal RescueNature And AnimalsHumans And DogsLoving DogWildlife AnimalsCompassion Towards AnimalsStray DogsAnimals And SocietyAbused AnimalsSaving AnimalsAnimal ExperimentationHumane WayHuman Beings And AnimalsProtect AnimalsExtinct Animals
Author:Mahatma Gandhi
Create image

“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.”

PeopleWayTryingLittlesProblemAsksWishEnjoyPleasureAnimalCompanyKindnessLike YouReturnFitComfortAbout FriendshipConditional
Author:Bill Watterson
Create image

“More than anything else, kindness is a way of life. It is a way of living and walking through life. It is a way of dealing with all that is-our selves, our bodies, our dreams and goals, our neighbors, our competitors, our enemies, our air, our earth, our animals, our space, our time, and our very consciousness. Do we treat all creation with kindness? Isn't all creation holy and divine?”

WaySelfDreamBodyEarthGoalSpaceAnimalConsciousnessEnemyKindnessAirCreationDivineWalkingHolyTreatsNeighborOur TimeOur DreamsCompetitorsDreams And GoalsWalking Through Life
Book:The Healing Power of Kindness
Create image

“I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.”

IfsMenHeartDoeRealMomentsEasyJusticeMy OwnAnimalGriefCompassionKindnessCryMoralityToleranceGentlePeculiarAssociatesAssaultHuntsGentlenessComprehensionMeasuringReal MenManlinessDon JuanJuanYardsticks
Author:Sophia Loren
Create image

“I'm not a vegetarian. Now, don't get me wrong - I like animals. And I don't think it's just fine to industrialize their production and to churn them out like they were wrenches. But there's no way to treat animals well when you're killing 10 billion of them a year. Kindness might just be a bit of a red herring. Let's get the numbers of animals we're killing for eating down, and then we'll worry about being nice to the ones that are left.”

ThinkingWayYearsWellsMightLeftBitsAnimalNumbersKindnessWorryNiceFineEatingRedTreatsDown AndKillingProductionsBillionsVegetarianBeing NiceWrenchesHerringRed Herrings
Author:Mark Bittman
Create image

“Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”

IfsDoeFreedomAnimalCompassionKindnessMankindCreaturesLimitsEthicsRootsEmbraceDepthCrueltyVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyLiving CreaturesAnimal LoveLove And CompassionBreadthKindness And CompassionHuman AnimalAnimal WorldSentient BeingsHumans And AnimalsPet AnimalsAnimal LifeAnimal CompassionThinking ManAnimal EthicsCruel WorldAnimal TestingAnimals In NatureNature And AnimalsCompassion For YourselfSmall CreaturesRespect LifeHuman Beings And Animals
Book:A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer
Create image

“If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.”

IfsNeedsProblemBigsCareAnimalResponsibilityKindnessBabyTake CareBreatheSupporterTaking ResponsibilityPersonal Responsibility
Author:Betty White
Create image

“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.”

CharacterAnimalKindnessRightsMankindEmpathyCapacityTestsTreatsClaimsFaithfulDecentHonorablePowerlessStewardship
Book:Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
Create image

“Kindness. The only possible method when dealing with a living creature. You'll get nowhere with an animal if you use terror, no matter what its level of development may be. That I have maintained, do maintain and always will maintain. People who think you can use terror are quite wrong. No, no, terror is useless, whatever its colour – white, red or even brown! Terror completely paralyses the nervous system.”

PeopleIfsThinkingMayMatterUseWhiteAnimalLevelsKindnessDevelopmentCreaturesRedNo Matter WhatMethodTerrorNervousUselessColourBrownNervous SystemLiving CreaturesParalysis
Book:The Heart of a Dog
Create image

“Farm animals are far more aware and intelligent than we ever imagined and, despite having been bred as domestic slaves, they are individual beings in their own right. As such, they deserve our respect. And our help. Who will plead for them if we are silent? Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been treated so with little respect and kindness just to make more meat.”

PeopleIfsLittlesHas BeensHelpingIndividualEnjoyAnimalKindnessCreaturesDeserveIntelligentSlaveSilentFleshTreatedDespiteMeatFarmsAnimal LoveRespect And Kindness
Author:Jane Goodall
Create image

“As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love, and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness.”

HumansHelpingSufferingUnderstandingAnimalDealsResponsibilityCompassionKindnessPlanetsPleaseAbuseMadnessSpeciesCrueltyWelfareVeganAnimal RightsPhilanthropyAnimal WelfareAnimal CrueltyLove And CompassionHuman AnimalAnimal CompassionAnimal AbuseCustodiansKindness To AnimalsHuman CrueltyLove And ResponsibilityAnimal SufferingAbused Animals
Author:Richard Gere
Create image

“Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.”

PeopleNeedsHumansKindHelpingHappinessSocialHuman BeingsAnimalAttitudeKindnessProgressAchieveHuman NatureDependsProsperitySelfishHelping OthersBuddhistHelpfulInteractionSocial InteractionOthers HappinessNot Selfish
Author:Dalai Lama
Create image

“Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.”

LeftAnimalKindnessGreaterTaughtBuddhismMercyIndiaCharityDoctrineSects
Book:Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
Create image

“I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?”

ThinkingMenBelieveHumansHeartLightLawStrongI BelieveJusticeAnimalBreakKindnessDutyEthicsWeakUniversalRelationMadDepthOneselfPityLengthSentimentsThinkerBreak ThroughComplementAnimal EthicsUprightness
Author:Victor Hugo
Create image

“So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.”

ShouldFirstsChildrenImportantCareKidsChoicesAnimalResponsibilityTalkingKindnessIssuesDutyImportant ThingsPetDividedCommentStarvingMiscellaneousMistreatedKindness To Animals
Author:Minnie Pearl
Create image

“Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.”

PeopleIfsBelieveHumansChildrenMadeCountryHomeCareEarthAnimalKindnessEconomicMiracleInternationalBuyingFarmersVegetablesFeedingBizarreEquationsPotatoesAsianFarmingProfitableScenariosTransportLaborersSneakersIf You CareSweatshops
Author:Barbara Kingsolver
Create image

“I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'”

MenSometimesTimeAnswersAnimalTalkingKindnessRootsCrueltyThought ProvokingAnimal RightsProvokingAnimal CrueltyAnimal WorldTime And MoneyMoney TalksKindness To Animals
Book:Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections
Create image

“If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.”

IfsThinkingWorldWantLoveNeedsJoyFightingEnergyStuffHurtAnimalPowerfulCompassionKindnessEnvironmentTreeLaughterDestroyingOur EnvironmentVery PowerfulWorld EnvironmentEco FriendlyDestroying The EnvironmentDestroying The Earth
Author:Ellen DeGeneres
Create image