Motivational Quotes

Kindness

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

- Tennessee Williams

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Pascal, Blaise

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

8.

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

Johnson, Samuel

9.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

12.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

13.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

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

Zadik

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Margaret Cho

19.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

20.

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

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

23.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

24.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

25.

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

26.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Cicero

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Sales, Soupy

32.

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

Aesop

33.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

34.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

36.

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

Clark, Frank A.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, Malayan

40.

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

41.

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

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

Sophocles

43.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

44.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

45.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

The Dalai Lama

48.

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

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.

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

Neilen, A.