Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

2.

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

3.

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

The Dalai Lama

4.

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

Seneca

5.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

6.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

7.

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

Bible

8.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

9.

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

Francke, Katherine

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

16.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

17.

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

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Aesop

22.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

23.

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

24.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

25.

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

Cicero

26.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

27.

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

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

30.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

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

William Wordsworth

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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

37.

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

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Wordsworth, William

39.

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

Zadik

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

43.

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

Neilen, A.

44.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

48.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell