Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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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

2.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Sophocles

6.

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

Talmud, The

7.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

8.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

9.

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

Schreiner, Olive

10.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

11.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

12.

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

Seneca

13.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

15.

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

William Wordsworth

16.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Syrus, Publilius

20.

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

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Sales, Soupy

22.

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

Aeschylus

23.

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

Neilen, A.

24.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

Aesop

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

33.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

34.

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

35.

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

Zadik

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.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

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

The Dalai Lama

40.

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.

41.

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

Sweetland, Ben

42.

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

Wordsworth, William

43.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

44.

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

45.

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

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.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

50.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.