Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

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

Wordsworth, William

2.

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

Aeschylus

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

Francke, Katherine

8.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

9.

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

Talmud, The

10.

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

11.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

12.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

13.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

14.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

19.

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

Neilen, A.

20.

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

Proverb, Malayan

21.

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

William Wordsworth

22.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

24.

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.

25.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

26.

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

Schreiner, Olive

27.

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

Margaret Cho

28.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

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

Clark, Frank A.

30.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

33.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

34.

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

Wordsworth, William

35.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

36.

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

Aesop

37.

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

Sophocles

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Seneca

43.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

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

Sweetland, Ben

45.

We hate the kindness which we understand.