Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, Malayan

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

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

Aesop

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

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

Sophocles

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

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

11.

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Syrop, Leroy Jack

12.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

13.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

18.

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.

19.

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

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Sales, Soupy

25.

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

26.

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

William Wordsworth

27.

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

28.

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

Zadik

29.

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

30.

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

Schreiner, Olive

31.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

34.

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

The Dalai Lama

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

47.

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.

48.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

49.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

50.

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