Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Syrus, Publilius

5.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

6.

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

Sales, Soupy

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

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

William Wordsworth

9.

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

10.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.

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

14.

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

Margaret Cho

15.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

17.

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

Francke, Katherine

18.

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

Wordsworth, William

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

21.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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.

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.

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

25.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

28.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

29.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

30.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

40.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Talmud, The

42.

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

Cicero

43.

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

Sweetland, Ben

44.

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.

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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.

47.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

48.

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

Wordsworth, William

49.

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

50.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi