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.

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

2.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

3.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

4.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Francke, Katherine

8.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

9.

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

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

13.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

15.

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

Wordsworth, William

16.

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

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

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

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

23.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

24.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

25.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

26.

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

Talmud, The

27.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

28.

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.

29.

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

The Dalai Lama

30.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

31.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

32.

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

Schreiner, Olive

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

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

Sweetland, Ben

36.

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

Margaret Cho

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

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

43.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

47.

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

Neilen, A.

48.

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

49.

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

Hubbard, Kin