Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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.

2.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

3.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

4.

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

5.

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

6.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

7.

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

Cicero

8.

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

Francke, Katherine

9.

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

Sales, Soupy

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

15.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

16.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

17.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

18.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

19.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

20.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

21.

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

22.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

23.

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

Wordsworth, William

24.

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

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

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

27.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

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

Margaret Cho

32.

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

The Dalai Lama

33.

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

Zadik

34.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

37.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

38.

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

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

Hubbard, Kin

41.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Sweetland, Ben

46.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Aesop

50.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De