Motivational Quotes

Kindness

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

- Tennessee Williams

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Hoffer, Eric

4.

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

5.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

6.

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

7.

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

Joubert, Joseph

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Malayan

11.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

14.

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

15.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

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

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Schreiner, Olive

22.

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

23.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

26.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

27.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

28.

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

Cicero

29.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

36.

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

37.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

38.

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

39.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

40.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Pascal, Blaise

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

48.

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.

49.

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