Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Hoffer, Eric

13.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

16.

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

William Wordsworth

17.

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

18.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Cicero

20.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

21.

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

22.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

Schreiner, Olive

27.

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

28.

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

29.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

30.

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

Zadik

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Aesop

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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.

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Malayan

41.

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

42.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

46.

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

Margaret Cho

47.

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

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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.

49.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Samuel