Motivational Quotes

Kindness

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Malayan

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

15.

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

Neilen, A.

16.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

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

Zadik

18.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

24.

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

Sophocles

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

Sweetland, Ben

28.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

34.

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

Cicero

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

38.

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

Hubbard, Kin

39.

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

40.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green