Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Neilen, A.

2.

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

3.

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

Bible

4.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

5.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

6.

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

Hubbard, Kin

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

8.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

9.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

10.

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

11.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

13.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

18.

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

Sales, Soupy

19.

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.

20.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

21.

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

22.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

24.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Malayan

27.

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

28.

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

William Wordsworth

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Francke, Katherine

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

35.

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

36.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

37.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

38.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

39.

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

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

42.

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

Aeschylus

43.

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

The Dalai Lama

44.

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

45.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

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

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

48.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

49.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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