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

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.

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

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

Neilen, A.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Cicero

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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.

11.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

12.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

14.

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

Seneca

15.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

18.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

19.

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

20.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Francke, Katherine

25.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

26.

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

27.

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

Sales, Soupy

28.

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

29.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Clark, Frank A.

33.

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

34.

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

Wordsworth, William

35.

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

Wordsworth, William

36.

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

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