Quotes About Kindness

If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else.

— Booker T. Washington

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.

— Douglas Jerrod

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

— Aesop

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

— Thomas Carlyle

All cruelty springs from weakness.

— Seneca the Younger

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

— Alexander Pope

Do not feel badly if your kindness is rewarded with ingratitude; it is better to fall from your dream clouds than from a third-story window.

— Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis