Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

- Bennett, William John

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

2.

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

3.

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

Sweetland, Ben

4.

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

5.

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

Margaret Cho

6.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

8.

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

Joubert, Joseph

9.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

The Dalai Lama

13.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Malayan

17.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

18.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

19.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

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

Talmud, The

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

27.

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

28.

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

29.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

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

Bible

32.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

36.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

37.

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

38.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Schreiner, Olive

40.

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

Neilen, A.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Clark, Frank A.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Hoffer, Eric