Confucius Kindness Quotations

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness