A man that is well ordered in his soul needeth little the unkind demeanor of worldly people nor yet their proud behavior.
Kind words cost no more than unkind ones. . . and we may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindliness around us at so little expense. If you would fall into any extreme let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists vigor and yields to softness.
The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.
THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
We cannot say that you are spiritually advanced if you are unkind to those around you.
When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.
I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.
Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.
Never say an unkind word to anyone.
Why are people so unkind?
It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.
I do not like to be unkind.
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.
Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.
Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.