Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

2.

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

3.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

4.

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

Sales, Soupy

5.

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

Schreiner, Olive

6.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

7.

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

8.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

9.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

10.

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

11.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

12.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

16.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

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

Zadik

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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

Cicero

26.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

27.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

28.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

William Wordsworth

30.

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

Sweetland, Ben

31.

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

32.

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

Aeschylus

33.

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

Aesop

34.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

35.

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

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.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

41.

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.

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

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.

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

Margaret Cho

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.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

49.

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

50.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese