Motivational Quotes

Kindness

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

- Tennessee Williams

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

2.

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

3.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

4.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind,t'were perjury to love thee now!

Tillich, Paul

5.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

6.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

8.

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

9.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

11.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

12.

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Syrop, Leroy Jack

13.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

14.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

16.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

17.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

18.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

19.

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

20.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

21.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

22.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

24.

By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.

25.

The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Alan, Robert

26.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

27.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

28.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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.

James, Henry

30.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

Francke, Katherine

32.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert

33.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

35.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

36.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

37.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

39.

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

40.

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.

Jerrold, Douglas William

41.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

44.

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.

Analects

45.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

46.

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I

47.

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

Aesop

48.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

49.

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.