Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

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

Schreiner, Olive

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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

Zadik

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

Johnson, Samuel

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

10.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Hoffer, Eric

11.

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

12.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.

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

Sweetland, Ben

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

17.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

18.

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.

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

21.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

23.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

24.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

25.

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

Cicero

26.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

27.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

30.

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

Francke, Katherine

31.

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

Margaret Cho

32.

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

Aesop

33.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

34.

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

Sophocles

35.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

36.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

37.

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

Syrus, Publilius

38.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

39.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

40.

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

Wordsworth, William

41.

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

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Wordsworth, William

44.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

48.

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

Sales, Soupy

49.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.