Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

4.

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

The Dalai Lama

5.

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

6.

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

Bible

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

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

Hubbard, Kin

13.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Sweetland, Ben

16.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

21.

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

Zadik

22.

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

Schreiner, Olive

23.

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Nonpareil

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

Neilen, A.

27.

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

Cicero

28.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

33.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

36.

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

William Wordsworth

37.

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

38.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

39.

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

40.

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.

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.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

45.

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

46.

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

Margaret Cho

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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