Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Johnson, Samuel

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

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

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.

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

Zadik

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

10.

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

Aesop

11.

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

12.

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

Sophocles

13.

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.

14.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wordsworth, William

16.

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

Proverb, Malayan

17.

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

Margaret Cho

18.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

19.

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

Aeschylus

20.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

21.

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

22.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

24.

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

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

28.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

29.

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

Sales, Soupy

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

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

Talmud, The

35.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

38.

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

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Seneca

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

44.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

45.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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