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

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Neilen, A.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

William Shakespeare

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Bible

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Proverb, Malayan

10.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

12.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

13.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

14.

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

15.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Sophocles

17.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

21.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

29.

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

Sweetland, Ben

30.

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

31.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

33.

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

34.

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

Margaret Cho

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

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

39.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Syrus, Publilius

43.