Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Sales, Soupy

4.

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

Wordsworth, William

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.

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

Aesop

7.

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

William Wordsworth

8.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

9.

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Francke, Katherine

12.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

13.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

15.

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.

16.

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.

17.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

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 spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

21.

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

22.

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

Sophocles

23.

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

24.

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

Cicero

25.

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

Aeschylus

26.

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

Sweetland, Ben

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Margaret Cho

39.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.

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

Clark, Frank A.

41.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Pascal, Blaise

46.

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

47.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

48.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

49.

The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Alan, Robert

50.

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.