Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Schreiner, Olive

2.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

3.

I loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind,t'were perjury to love thee now!

Tillich, Paul

4.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

5.

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.

6.

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

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.

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

Bible

10.

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

Sales, Soupy

11.

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

12.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

13.

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

14.

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

Seneca

15.

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

Aeschylus

16.

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

17.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

18.

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

Zadik

19.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

22.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

26.

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

Proverb, Malayan

27.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

28.

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

William Wordsworth

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

31.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

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

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

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

35.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

36.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

37.

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

Hubbard, Kin

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

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

43.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Sweetland, Ben