Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

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.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Bible

10.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

11.

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

12.

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

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

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

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Neilen, A.

20.

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.

21.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

22.

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Syrop, Leroy Jack

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

28.

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

Francke, Katherine

29.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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

31.

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

Sales, Soupy

32.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

35.

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

36.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

38.

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

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

40.

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

41.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Hoffer, Eric

44.

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

45.

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

Aesop

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Talmud, The

49.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

50.

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

Aeschylus