Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Clark, Frank A.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Cicero

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

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

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

31.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

32.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

33.

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

34.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

36.

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

37.

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

38.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

39.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

40.

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

Sweetland, Ben

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Neilen, A.

44.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

45.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Sales, Soupy

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.