Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Faber, Frederick W.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Cicero

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

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

Bible

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

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Talmud, The

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

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

20.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Pascal, Blaise

22.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

26.

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

Proverb, Malayan

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

31.

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

32.

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

Francke, Katherine

33.

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

Seneca

34.

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

Neilen, A.

35.

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

36.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

37.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

42.

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

Johnson, Samuel

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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

Sweetland, Ben

45.

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

Zadik

46.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

47.

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

48.

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

Clark, Frank A.

49.

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

50.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese