Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Sales, Soupy

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

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

Cicero

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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

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

11.

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

The Dalai Lama

12.

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

Zadik

13.

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

14.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Sweetland, Ben

18.

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

19.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Margaret Cho

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

32.

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

Aesop

33.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

34.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

35.

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.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

38.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

39.

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

Neilen, A.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Malayan

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

48.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

49.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

50.

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.