Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Aeschylus

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Neilen, A.

10.

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

11.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

16.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

17.

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

18.

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

Schreiner, Olive

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

22.

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

23.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.

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

25.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

26.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

29.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

The Dalai Lama

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Sweetland, Ben

36.

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

Proverb, Malayan

37.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

38.

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

Bible

39.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.

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

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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

42.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

43.

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

44.

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

Margaret Cho

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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

46.

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

Francke, Katherine

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

48.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Sales, Soupy