Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

2.

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

Johnson, Samuel

3.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

4.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

6.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

7.

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

8.

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

Bible

9.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Sophocles

15.

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

The Dalai Lama

16.

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

Proverb, Malayan

17.

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

Wordsworth, William

18.

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

Sales, Soupy

19.

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

Aesop

20.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

22.

The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Alan, Robert

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

26.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

27.

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

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.

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

30.

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

31.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

32.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

33.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

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

Francke, Katherine

38.

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

39.

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

Margaret Cho

40.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

45.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Analects

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Wordsworth, William

49.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

50.

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

Faber, Frederick W.