Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Faber, Frederick W.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Margaret Cho

2.

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

3.

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

Wordsworth, William

4.

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

5.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

6.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

12.

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

William Wordsworth

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

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

Neilen, A.

17.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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.

24.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

25.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

26.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

27.

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

Sweetland, Ben

28.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Pascal, Blaise

30.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

32.

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

33.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

39.

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

Francke, Katherine

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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.

42.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

43.

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

44.

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

Joubert, Joseph

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

49.

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

50.

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

Schweitzer, Albert