Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- William Wordsworth

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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.

2.

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

Seneca

3.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

4.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

5.

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.

6.

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

Francke, Katherine

7.

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

Sophocles

8.

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

9.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

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

12.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

14.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Wordsworth, William

18.

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

19.

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

20.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

21.

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

Schreiner, Olive

22.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

23.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

24.

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

Margaret Cho

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

28.

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

29.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Clark, Frank A.

32.

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

Talmud, The

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

36.

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

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

39.

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

40.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

41.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Burton, Henry

42.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

43.

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.

44.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Johnson, Samuel

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin

50.

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

Cicero