Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

- Bennett, William John

Best Quotes about Kindness

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Bible

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

11.

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

Zadik

12.

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

Cicero

13.

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.

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

15.

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

16.

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

Proverb, Malayan

17.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

18.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

20.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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.

27.

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

Sophocles

28.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

29.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

34.

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

Hubbard, Kin

35.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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

Neilen, A.

38.

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

Schreiner, Olive

39.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

40.

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

Margaret Cho

41.

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Syrop, Leroy Jack

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

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

47.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

48.

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

49.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.