Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

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

Neilen, A.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Bible

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

10.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

11.

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

12.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

13.

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

14.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

15.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb, Malayan

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

23.

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

Zadik

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

29.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

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

31.

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

Wordsworth, William

32.

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

33.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Schreiner, Olive

35.

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

Aesop

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Hoffer, Eric

41.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

42.

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

43.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

44.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

45.

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

Johnson, Samuel

46.

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.

47.

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

Talmud, The

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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.