Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

- Schiff, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Kindness

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.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

10.

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

11.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

13.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

Sales, Soupy

17.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

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

Francke, Katherine

20.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

21.

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

Margaret Cho

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Malayan

25.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

26.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

30.

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

31.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Neilen, A.

33.

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

Aeschylus

34.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

35.

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.

36.

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

Hubbard, Kin

37.

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

38.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

39.

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

Schreiner, Olive

40.

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

41.

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

Wordsworth, William

42.

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

43.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

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

Cicero

45.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

46.

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

47.

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

Aesop

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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

49.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

50.

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

Pascal, Blaise