Motivational Quotes

Kindness

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

Zadik

20.

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

Prentice, George D.

21.

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

William Wordsworth

22.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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.

26.

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

Margaret Cho

27.

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

28.

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

Sales, Soupy

29.

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

The Dalai Lama

30.

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

Sweetland, Ben

31.

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

Aesop

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.

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

34.

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

35.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

36.

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

Wordsworth, William

37.

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

Cicero

38.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

41.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

42.

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

Aeschylus

43.

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

44.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.