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.

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.

2.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

3.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

4.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

5.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

6.

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

7.

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

Wordsworth, William

8.

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

Hoffer, Eric

9.

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

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

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.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

19.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

20.

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

21.

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

Cicero

22.

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

23.

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

Francke, Katherine

24.

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

Sophocles

25.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

26.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

29.

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

30.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

31.

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

32.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Zadik

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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.

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

44.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

45.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

46.

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

Aeschylus

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John