Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Zadik

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

2.

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

3.

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

Aeschylus

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

7.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

8.

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

9.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

11.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

12.

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

13.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

14.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

Margaret Cho

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

26.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Cicero

31.

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

Talmud, The

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

35.

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

Neilen, A.

36.

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

37.

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

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

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.

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

Proverb, Malayan