Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

2.

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

Sales, Soupy

3.

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

Wordsworth, William

4.

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

Aeschylus

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

8.

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

9.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

16.

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

17.

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

Wordsworth, William

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

26.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

27.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

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.

29.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Francke, Katherine

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

36.

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

37.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

38.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

39.

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

40.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

41.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

42.

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

43.

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

Talmud, The

44.

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

45.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

46.

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

47.

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

Pascal, Blaise

48.

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

Aesop

49.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

50.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.