Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Anne Herbert

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Ian MacLaren

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another.
Colossians 3:12-13 (KJV)

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

For thy loving kindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
Psalms 26:3 (KJV)

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Mother Teresa

I must be cruel only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the world ever needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage, or bravery, or generosity, or anything else.
Roald Dahl

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
Catherine Ryan Hyde

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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