Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

William Shakespeare

2.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Sales, Soupy

3.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

4.

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

5.

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

Cicero

6.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

7.

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

8.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

9.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

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

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.

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

13.

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

Wordsworth, William

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

17.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

18.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

William Wordsworth

20.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

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

Proverb, Malayan

22.

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

Margaret Cho

23.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

24.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Francke, Katherine

28.

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

Clark, Frank A.

29.

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

30.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

31.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

35.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

36.

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

Talmud, The

37.

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

38.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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.

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

41.

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

Seneca

42.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.

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

44.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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.

46.

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

Prentice, George D.

47.

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

Aesop

48.

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

49.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.