Motivational Quotes

Kindness

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schweitzer, Albert

2.

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

Hubbard, Kin

3.

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

Schreiner, Olive

4.

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

Sophocles

5.

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

Talmud, The

6.

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

Sweetland, Ben

7.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

8.

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

Wordsworth, William

9.

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

Aeschylus

10.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

13.

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

Zadik

14.

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Strait, C. Neil

15.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

The Dalai Lama

18.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

19.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

21.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

22.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

23.

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

24.

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

Bible

25.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Francke, Katherine

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

36.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

37.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Aesop

40.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

41.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

42.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

44.

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

Cicero

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Malayan

47.

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

48.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

49.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

50.

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