Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

2.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

3.

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

4.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

5.

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

Neilen, A.

6.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

7.

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

Hoffer, Eric

8.

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

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

10.

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

Johnson, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Malayan

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Cicero

16.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Wordsworth, William

21.

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

22.

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

William Wordsworth

23.

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

Sales, Soupy

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

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

29.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

The Dalai Lama

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Johnson, Samuel

44.

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.

45.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.