Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

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

3.

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

4.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing 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.

Ettiene De Grellet

5.

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

6.

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

7.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

9.

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

Margaret Cho

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

12.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

14.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

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

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

20.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

21.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

22.

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

Sophocles

23.

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

24.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

25.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

26.

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

27.

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

Talmud, The

28.

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

29.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

30.

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

31.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

32.

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

33.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Neilen, A.

42.

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

43.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.