Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- The Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Kindness

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

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

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

Schreiner, Olive

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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

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

The Dalai Lama

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.

10.

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

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.

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

Cicero

13.

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

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Neilen, A.

19.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

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

Seneca

21.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

22.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

23.

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

Aeschylus

24.

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

25.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

27.

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

Hubbard, Kin

28.

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

29.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Aesop

34.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

35.

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

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Francke, Katherine

38.

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

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

40.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

43.

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

44.

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

Sweetland, Ben

45.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

47.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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.