Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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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

2.

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

3.

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

Joubert, Joseph

4.

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

Wordsworth, William

5.

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

Cicero

6.

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

7.

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

Clark, Frank A.

8.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

9.

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

12.

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

Aesop

13.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

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

Wordsworth, William

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

23.

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

24.

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

Margaret Cho

25.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

26.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

27.

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

28.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

29.

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

30.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

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

32.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

33.

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

Francke, Katherine

34.

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

Proverb, Malayan

35.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

36.

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

37.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

39.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

40.

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

41.

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

Seneca

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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