Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Sales, Soupy

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Cicero

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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.

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

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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.

10.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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.

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

Neilen, A.

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Margaret Cho

16.

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

17.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

18.

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.

19.

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

Aesop

20.

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

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

Sweetland, Ben

23.

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

Seneca

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

29.

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

30.

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

Wordsworth, William

31.

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

Francke, Katherine

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

36.

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

37.

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

Zadik

38.

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

Aeschylus

39.

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

Wordsworth, William

40.

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

The Dalai Lama

41.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

42.

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

43.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

45.

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

Schreiner, Olive

46.

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Johnson, Samuel

50.

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

Proverb, Malayan