Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Aeschylus

2.

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

Syrus, Publilius

3.

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

4.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

5.

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

Pascal, Blaise

6.

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

Zadik

7.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

8.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

The Dalai Lama

14.

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

15.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

16.

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

17.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

18.

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

Seneca

19.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

20.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

24.

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

Johnson, Samuel

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

Wordsworth, William

29.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

30.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

31.

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

Neilen, A.

32.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

33.

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

Talmud, The

34.

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

Francke, Katherine

35.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

36.

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

Margaret Cho

37.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

44.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

45.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

47.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

48.

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

Clark, Frank A.

49.

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

Sweetland, Ben

50.

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

Sales, Soupy