Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Wordsworth, William

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Seneca

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

10.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Cicero

19.

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

Wordsworth, William

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Neilen, A.

22.

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

23.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

24.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

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

The Dalai Lama

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

34.

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

Sweetland, Ben

35.

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

Clark, Frank A.

36.

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

Aeschylus

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

39.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

40.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

45.

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

46.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

47.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

48.

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

Proverb, Malayan

49.

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

50.

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

Margaret Cho