Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

2.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

3.

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.

4.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

5.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

6.

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

Pascal, Blaise

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Sales, Soupy

12.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

16.

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

17.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

18.

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

Francke, Katherine

19.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

27.

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

Wordsworth, William

28.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

29.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

30.

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

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

35.

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

Hoffer, Eric

36.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

37.

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

Neilen, A.

38.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

39.

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.

40.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

41.

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.

42.

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

Margaret Cho

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.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

45.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

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

Proverb, Malayan

47.

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

Bible

48.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

49.

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

50.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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