Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

2.

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

Joubert, Joseph

3.

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

4.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

5.

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

Pascal, Blaise

6.

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

Johnson, Samuel

7.

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

8.

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

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.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

11.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

12.

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

13.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

18.

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

Schreiner, Olive

19.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

20.

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

21.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

22.

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

23.

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

Hubbard, Kin

24.

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

25.

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

26.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

27.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

28.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

29.

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

Neilen, A.

30.

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

31.

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

Aesop

32.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

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.

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Clark, Frank A.

36.

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

Zadik

37.

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

38.

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

The Dalai Lama

39.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

40.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

45.

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

Wordsworth, William

46.

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

47.

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

Francke, Katherine

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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