Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

4.

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

William Wordsworth

5.

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

Proverb, Malayan

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Bible

9.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

14.

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

Clark, Frank A.

15.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

16.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

17.

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.

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

19.

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

The Dalai Lama

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Aeschylus

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

32.

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

Sweetland, Ben

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Jerrold, Douglas William

35.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

38.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

39.

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

Schreiner, Olive

40.

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

Aesop

41.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

42.

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.

43.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

45.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

46.

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

Margaret Cho

47.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

48.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline