Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schreiner, Olive

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

15.

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

The Dalai Lama

16.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

17.

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

Wordsworth, William

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

27.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

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

Margaret Cho

29.

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

30.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Aeschylus

35.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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.

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

40.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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

42.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

43.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

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

Francke, Katherine