Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Pascal, Blaise

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Sophocles

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

Seneca

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

16.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

17.

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

Aeschylus

18.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

19.

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

20.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

21.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

22.

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.

23.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

24.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

26.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

27.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

William Wordsworth

33.

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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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

37.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

38.

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

Neilen, A.

39.

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.

40.

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

Clark, Frank A.

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

43.

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

Sales, Soupy

44.

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

45.

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

Francke, Katherine

46.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

47.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing 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.

Ettiene De Grellet

48.

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

Proverb, Malayan

49.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

50.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.