We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

17.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

18.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

19.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

20.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

22.

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

23.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

24.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

25.

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

26.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

28.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

Aesop

30.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

32.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

34.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

35.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

36.

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

37.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind,t'were perjury to love thee now!

Tillich, Paul

40.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Analects

41.

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

Wordsworth, William

42.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

43.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Jerrold, Douglas William