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.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

2.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

3.

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

Bible

4.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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

6.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Seneca

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

12.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

13.

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

14.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

15.

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

Aesop

16.

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

17.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

21.

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.

22.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Sophocles

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Margaret Cho

28.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

29.

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

Aeschylus

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

33.

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

Wordsworth, William

34.

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

35.

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

Neilen, A.

36.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

37.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

William Wordsworth

39.

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

Clark, Frank A.

40.

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

41.

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

Francke, Katherine

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Zadik

45.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

46.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

47.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb