Motivational Quotes

Kindness

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about 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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Margaret Cho

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

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

Zadik

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

Sweetland, Ben

12.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

13.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

14.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Neilen, A.

18.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Aeschylus

21.

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Jerrold, Douglas William

22.

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.

23.

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

Hoffer, Eric

24.

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

Francke, Katherine

25.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

29.

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

30.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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.

34.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

35.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

37.

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

38.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

39.

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

Sophocles

40.

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

41.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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