Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

2.

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

Wordsworth, William

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Wordsworth, William

7.

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

8.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

9.

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

14.

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

15.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

16.

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

Sweetland, Ben

17.

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

Hubbard, Kin

18.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

19.

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

Cicero

21.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

22.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

23.

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

Zadik

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

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

30.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

31.

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

William Wordsworth

32.

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

33.

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

34.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

35.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

36.

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

37.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Sales, Soupy

42.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

43.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

46.

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

Aesop

47.

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

48.

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

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.

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