Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Syrus, Publilius

2.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

3.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

William Wordsworth

9.

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

10.

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

Sweetland, Ben

11.

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.

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

17.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

18.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Clark, Frank A.

22.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

26.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

27.

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

Aesop

28.

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

Zadik

29.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

31.

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

Wordsworth, William

32.

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

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.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Sales, Soupy

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

42.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Malayan

46.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

47.

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

Cicero

48.

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.

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