Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

William Wordsworth

5.

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

Syrus, Publilius

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Hubbard, Kin

9.

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

Sophocles

10.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

11.

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

The Dalai Lama

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

Aesop

15.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

20.

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

21.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

22.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

23.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

24.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

25.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Aeschylus

27.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

28.

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

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

31.

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

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.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

34.

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

Sweetland, Ben

35.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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 the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

42.

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

43.

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

Clark, Frank A.

44.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Seneca

48.

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

Margaret Cho

49.

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

50.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi