Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Kindness

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

2.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

Aesop

8.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

9.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

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

11.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

12.

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

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

14.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

15.

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

Hubbard, Kin

16.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

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

The Dalai Lama

18.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

20.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Cicero

24.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

28.

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

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

34.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

37.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

38.

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

Proverb, Malayan

39.

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

Zadik

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

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

Francke, Katherine

45.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

46.

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

Sweetland, Ben

47.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

48.

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

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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

50.

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