Kindness quotes

“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.”

William Shakespeare

As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3 · View source

“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”

Abraham Lincoln

Second Inaugural Address, 4 March 1865 · View source

“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source

“The benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Compensation · View source

“A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.”

Confucius

Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol, Stave Four · View source

“The quality of mercy is not strained.”

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1 · View source

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 · View source

“Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Gitanjali, poem 36 · View source

“His work and his rest are filled with music: he sheds abroad the radiance of love.”

Kabir

Songs of Kabir, poem LXX (III.9), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source

“Go thou to the company of the good, where the Beloved One has His dwelling place.”

Kabir

Songs of Kabir, poem LXXI (III.13), translated by Rabindranath Tagore · View source