Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schreiner, Olive

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Wordsworth

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aesop

10.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Zadik

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.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

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

Seneca

18.

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

19.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

24.

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

25.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

26.

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

Francke, Katherine

27.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Wordsworth, William

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

31.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

32.

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

33.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

34.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

35.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

36.

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

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

39.

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

40.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good 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.

Penn, William

41.

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

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Malayan

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

46.

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

Neilen, A.

47.

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

Pascal, Blaise

48.

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.

49.

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.

50.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De