Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

2.

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

3.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

4.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

5.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

6.

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

Sales, Soupy

7.

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

8.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

9.

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

Sweetland, Ben

10.

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

11.

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

12.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

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.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Wordsworth, William

16.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

17.

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

Cicero

18.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

23.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

24.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

25.

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.

26.

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

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Aesop

32.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

34.

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

Francke, Katherine

35.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

Bible

38.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

40.

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

Clark, Frank A.

41.

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

42.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

43.

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

44.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

45.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Talmud, The

50.

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

Aeschylus