Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Margaret Cho

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.

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

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

Proverb, Malayan

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

15.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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.

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

22.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

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

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

27.

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

The Dalai Lama

28.

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

29.

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

Joubert, Joseph

30.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Neilen, A.

34.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

35.

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

Sweetland, Ben

36.

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

37.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Cicero

39.

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

Schreiner, Olive

40.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Johnson, Samuel