Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Aesop

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Malayan

7.

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

8.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

13.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

15.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

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

17.

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

Seneca

18.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

22.

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

The Dalai Lama

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.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Zadik

32.

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.

33.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

34.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius