68 phrases of kindness to promote this quality
Kind phrases are a kind of moral compass able to help us decide what is right. Therefore, it is interesting to know what they thought about the good important characters of history, writers, philosophers, etc.
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Powerful phrases about kindness
This selection of phrases about kindness will help you to understand more about this quality from the perspective of great thinkers and historical figures.
1. How much goodness there is in man, she exclaimed to herself, when she is aroused by the suffering of her fellows! (Charles Maturin)
In that phrase of kindness of Maturin, we are told about the tie.
2. In all parts of the world there are injustices and bad people! The important thing is to be able to live in a way that protects the natural goodness of man (Orhan Pamuk)
On the autonomy of choosing what position to take.
3. Can I conceal my thoughts from the woman I respect the most, from whom I have not received but tenderness and all the goodness of the world, to the best of mothers? (Horace Walpole)
This phrase of Walpole addresses the kindness that comes from a woman.
4. What is kindness? In loving all men (Confucius)
On that unconditional delivery.
5. To each new exaction, to each new cruelty, we must oppose a small supplement of love and kindness that we have to conquer in ourselves (Etty Hillesum)
As a cure for the expression of evil.
6. In order for you to be better, purify yourself every day (Chinese Proverb)
On work on our feelings .
7. Good people are known to know better when they know it (Bertolt Brecht)
A particular way of approaching kind people.
8. Men do not move the merit of good action if it does not carry the prize (Ovidio)
About justified benefits.
9. When doing good, he never lacks a prize (Miguel de Cervantes)
In this phrase of kindness we see the face of the other coin.
10. Just as men and women in their infinite goodness believe in God, it is possible that God in his infinite goodness believes in men and women (Juan Gelman)
A peculiar reflection of the Argentine poet.
11. Benevolence does not mean tolerance of the mean, or conformity with the inept, but good will (Antonio Machado)
Try to make good things happen.
12. Goodness is wisdom. (James Bailey)
This phrase of kindness brings us closer to one of its qualities.
13. Looking for the good of our fellow human beings, we find ours (Plato)
When we rejoice in the happiness of the other.
14. I believe that people and society are good. The key is where you project your energy. You can position yourself where there is goodness, yes, there is, or you can think that there is no goodness in society and that we must end everything. There is kindness even in the most corrupt and reactionary circles. I believe that man can change and that things can change. It's about how we want things to change (Leonard Cohen)
When we assimilate it as an attitude towards our environment.
15. When you see a good man, think about imitating him; When you see a bad one, examine your own heart (Confucius)
Before judging every person is an inspiration to know us.
16. The better the good, the more annoying it is for the bad (St. Augustine)
For St. Augustine, good ones can be a nuisance because they can remind him of his limitations.
17. The better a person is, the more difficult it is to suspect the wickedness of others. (Cicero)
It is difficult for him to see bad intentions and other people because it is totally foreign to its characteristics.
18. Good is slow because it goes uphill. Evil is fast because it goes downhill (Alejandro Dumas)
For people of weak character it is easier to decant for the most comfortable.
19. The good that we have done gives us an inner satisfaction that is the sweetest of all the pasione (René Descartes)
This phrase of kindness brings us closer to the feeling of constantly practicing it.
20. The good that we did the day before is the one that brings us happiness in the morning (Indian Proverb)
This phrase carries a lot of Eastern philosophy that addresses the law of karma.
21. Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty (Anne Rice)
Another phrase where goodness is shown as an expression that can not be replicated by all.
22. Bad payment adds merit to good works (Jacinto Benavente)
Since subliminal its value before a moral position.
23. The best tribute that can be paid to good people is to imitate them (Concepción Arenal)
This phrase of kindness invites us to practice it.
24. The first step towards good is not to do evil (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Something so simple that sometimes is very difficult to avoid.
25. He who is good in the family is also a good citizen. (Sophocles)
All change must begin at home.
26. In goodness all genres of wisdom are enclosed (Ernesto Sabato)
Since in practice we reached know the best of us .
27. It is easy to be good; the hard part is to be fair (Víctor Hugo)
Kindness can give without hesitation but justice has to be adjusted to what it is.
28. It is a thousand times easier to do good than to do it well (Montesquieu)
A phrase of kindness on the part of this French philosopher.
29. I am sure that you carry with you your kindness, your moral sense, whatever you want to call it. Anyway, I like to think that most of us are capable of that (Elizabeth Kostova)
On those characteristics where goodness lives and becomes irresistible for other people.
30. Much of goodness consists in wanting to be good (Seneca)
Intentions are not enough, you have to do it.
31. There is a reward for the goodness of every human or animal life (Muhammad)
Every act of kindness comes back to us.
32. The joy of doing good is in sowing, not in gathering (Jacinto Benavente)
In the process of doing good.
33. The kindness of the heart and the fairness of an honest man is worth a hundred times more than the friendship of a miscreant (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
On the value of kindness above all.
34. The kindness was lukewarm and without consistency, it smelled of raw meat stored for a long time (Clarice Lispector)
Here we can see the descriptive quality of the Brazilian writer).
35. Kindness is the principle of touch, and respect for others is the first condition for knowing how to live (Henri-Frédéric Amiel)
As a basis for a healthy coexistence. One of the kind words that help us recognize her where she is.
36. Goodness is the only investment that never fails (Henry David Thoreau)
We never regret it.
37. The goodness or badness of the acts is determined by their fruit (Dalai Lama)
Then according to what we practice we must be aware of what we are going to expect.
38. Kindness can do a lot. Like the sun that melts the ice, goodness evaporates misunderstandings, distrust and hostility (Albert Schweitzer)
Kindness can give us some magic to turn the rough into soft.
39. Kindness makes its way smoothly (Domenico Cieri Estrada)
Your entrance is sweet and subtle.
40. Kindness, armed with power is corrupted. Pure love without power is destroyed (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Goodness must find its space and reaffirm itself from that place.
41 Goodness, the more communicative, grows faster (John Milton)
Everyone will want to imitate her.
42. Modern science has not yet produced a reassuring medication as effective as a few kind words (Sigmund Freud)
As it appeases our need to feel understood.
43. Trust in the goodness of others is a small testimony of one's own goodness. (Michel de Montaigne)
An interesting reflection of this French thinker.
44. The good people, if you think about it a bit, have always been cheerful people (Ernest Hemingway)
Good humor is the reflection of a kind soul.
46. 45. People who cease to believe in God or goodness still tend to believe in the devil. I do not know why. Or I do know: evil is always possible, kindness is an eternal difficulty (Anne Rice)
In this reflection, a religious sense is reflected.
46. The reward of a good deed is having done it. (Seneca)
About the satisfaction of the action.
47. The beautiful souls are the only ones who know everything that is great in goodness. (François Fénelon)
Since they practice it constantly.
48. Men are more capable of great actions than of good deeds. (Montesquieu)
Since we are always wanting to do something transcendental.
49. Monkeys are too good for man to descend from them. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
A phrase that caused a lot of controversy in his time.
50. Our generation will not have lamented so much about the crimes of the perverse, as about the shocking silence of the kind ones. (Martin Luther King)
In this sentence, it refers to people who remain passive in situations that can be reported.
51. My mother's name was María Vizcaíno and she was full of kindness, so much that her heart did not resist that burden and burst. No, it's not easy to love much, Juan (Juan Rulfo)
Beautiful phrase of this Mexican writer.
52. My true religion is kindness. If we practice it in our life, it does not matter if we know a lot or little, or if we believe in the next life or not, in God or in Buddha. In our daily lives we have to be passive. That is the passage to the light (Dalai Lama)
The Dalai Lama, lets express his philosophy in this phrase of kindness.
53 Many times to be good we have to stop being honest (Jacinto Benavente)
A deep reflection of this Spanish playwright who offers us a different perspective of goodness.
54. Nobody can do good in one space of their life, while doing harm in another. Life is an indivisible whole (Mahatma Gandhi)
About us act being consistent .
55. It is not enough to do good: you have to do it well (Denis Diderot)
If we are going to embark on something we have to do it with the best season.
56. I know no other sign of superiority than kindness (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Phrases of kindness of the universal musician.
57. We should never regret the time we have spent in proceeding well (Joseph Joubert)
Because it's never wasted time.
58It is not difficult for a man to do some good deeds; the difficult thing is to work well all of life, without doing any harm (Mao Tse-Tung)
This phrase tests our character.
59. Not all men can be illustrious, but they can be good (confucius)
Goodness is far from the rank assigned to a person as illustrious.
60. Not doing good is a very great evil. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
About responsibilities that guarantee coexistence with the other .
61. There is no way to achieve goodness without first offering it (Sri Chinmoy)
In order to receive it, you have to start delivering the experience.
62. There is no good thing that does not have its basis in reason (Seneca)
For Seneca, this is the basis of all action that has an end towards goodness.
63. Do not content yourself with showing friendship only with words; let your heart be kindled with loving kindness to all who cross your path (Abdul Baha)
Goodness is represented in actions, not in theory.
64. We can not become good at striving to be good but by finding the goodness that dwells in us to let it out. (Eckhart Tolle)
Each person has an original way of showing their kindness.
65. There can be no kindness where there is no knowledge of it (Juan Luis Vives)
To show kindness we must have experienced it.
66. The one who does not know how to fight and resist can not be good (Concepción Arenal)
Hard situations forge your character and develop empathy.
67. Not knowing how to be good with bad people is proof that it is not a good thing at all (San Francisco de Sales)
We must be consistent at all times.
68. The time spent trying to do good is not lost (Concepción Arenal)
All the goodness that we can do, will be reflected in ourselves first.
