Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

2.

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.

3.

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.

4.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

8.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

9.

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

10.

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

Zadik

11.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

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

Francke, Katherine

18.

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

Schreiner, Olive

19.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

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

Clark, Frank A.

24.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

25.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

26.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

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.

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

Margaret Cho

32.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

33.

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

34.

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

William Wordsworth

35.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

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

37.

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

Sales, Soupy

38.

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

Cicero

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

43.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

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

46.

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

Seneca

47.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Neilen, A.