Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

2.

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

Schreiner, Olive

3.

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

4.

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

Zadik

5.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

6.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

7.

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

Talmud, The

8.

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

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

10.

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

Cicero

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

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

13.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

14.

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

15.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Sales, Soupy

19.

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

Sweetland, Ben

20.

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

21.

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

22.

If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

23.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

24.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

25.

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

26.

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

Seneca

27.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

28.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

29.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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.

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

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

34.

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

Francke, Katherine

35.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

36.

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

37.

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

Aesop

38.

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

Neilen, A.

39.

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

Pascal, Blaise

40.

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

41.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

42.

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

Wordsworth, William

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

45.

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

46.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Hoffer, Eric

50.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer