Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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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Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

4.

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

Pascal, Blaise

5.

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

Aesop

6.

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

The Dalai Lama

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Sweetland, Ben

14.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

15.

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

Proverb, Malayan

16.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

18.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

19.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

20.

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

Zadik

21.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

29.

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

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

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

Sales, Soupy

33.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

34.

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

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

Talmud, The

38.

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.

39.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

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.

41.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

42.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

43.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

44.

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

Neilen, A.

45.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

46.

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

47.

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

Aeschylus

48.

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

49.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

50.

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

Wordsworth, William