Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

William Shakespeare

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.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

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

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

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

Talmud, The

10.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

14.

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

15.

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

Wordsworth, William

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

24.

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

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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.

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

Hubbard, Kin

29.

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

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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

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

33.

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

Francke, Katherine

34.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

35.

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

Aesop

36.

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.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

The Dalai Lama

41.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

44.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

45.

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

Schreiner, Olive

46.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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

48.

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

Seneca

49.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

50.

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.