Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.

Ray, Randolph

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

10.

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

Schreiner, Olive

11.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

12.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

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

15.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

16.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

17.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Sweetland, Ben

18.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

21.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

24.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

26.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

27.

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

28.

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.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Nonpareil

30.

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

31.

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

Wordsworth, William

35.

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

36.

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

Cicero

37.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Margaret Cho

39.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Burton, Henry

40.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

41.

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

Aeschylus

42.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Ettiene De Grellet

43.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

44.

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

45.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Sales, Soupy

47.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

49.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

50.

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.