Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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.

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

Aesop

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

Cicero

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

Bible

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Wordsworth, William

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

13.

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

Proverb, Malayan

14.

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

15.

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

Talmud, The

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

18.

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

Margaret Cho

19.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Schreiner, Olive

22.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

William Wordsworth

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

39.

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

40.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

42.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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.

46.

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

Zadik

47.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

48.

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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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

50.

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.