Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Cicero

5.

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

Aeschylus

6.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

7.

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

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

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

13.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

16.

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

17.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

18.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

19.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

Prentice, George D.

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.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Talmud, The

24.

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Aesop

29.

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

William Wordsworth

30.

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

31.

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

Johnson, Samuel

32.

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

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.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

37.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

38.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, Malayan

41.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Seneca

44.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

45.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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.

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

48.

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

Sweetland, Ben

49.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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

Johnson, Samuel