Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Sophocles

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Joubert, Joseph

5.

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

Aesop

6.

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

Sweetland, Ben

7.

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

Aeschylus

8.

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

9.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

11.

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

12.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Zadik

16.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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.

19.

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

Pascal, Blaise

20.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

24.

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

Sales, Soupy

25.

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

The Dalai Lama

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

29.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

35.

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

36.

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

Wordsworth, William

37.

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.

38.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

42.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

43.

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

44.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

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

Francke, Katherine

46.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

47.

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

Margaret Cho

48.

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

49.

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

50.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius