Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Seneca

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

10.

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

11.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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

Proverb, Malayan

14.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

16.

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

Sweetland, Ben

17.

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

Schreiner, Olive

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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

Francke, Katherine

24.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

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

Zadik

26.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

27.

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

28.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

29.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

30.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

31.

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

Talmud, The

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aesop

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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

44.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

45.

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

46.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

The Dalai Lama

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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.