Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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.

6.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

7.

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

Syrus, Publilius

8.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

9.

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

10.

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

Sales, Soupy

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

13.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

15.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

17.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

18.

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

Margaret Cho

19.

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

Aesop

20.

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

21.

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

Sweetland, Ben

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

27.

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

Cicero

28.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

29.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

Aeschylus

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

35.

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

Schreiner, Olive

36.

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

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Pascal, Blaise

39.

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

40.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

41.

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

Francke, Katherine

42.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

43.

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

Talmud, The

44.

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

45.

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

Clark, Frank A.

46.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

47.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

48.

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