Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

4.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

5.

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

Proverb, Malayan

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

9.

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

Pascal, Blaise

10.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

11.

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

12.

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

Cicero

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

15.

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

Wordsworth, William

16.

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

17.

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

The Dalai Lama

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

21.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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.

23.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

24.

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

25.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

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

Zadik

28.

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

Clark, Frank A.

29.

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

30.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

31.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Francke, Katherine

33.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

William Wordsworth

40.

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

41.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

42.

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

43.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

44.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Neilen, A.

48.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

49.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

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

Sophocles