Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Talmud, The

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Neilen, A.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

10.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

11.

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

Aesop

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

15.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

16.

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

17.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

18.

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

19.

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

Seneca

20.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

21.

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

The Dalai Lama

22.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

23.

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

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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.

25.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

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

27.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

28.

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

29.

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

Aeschylus

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

Margaret Cho

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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

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Bible

41.

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

Sales, Soupy

42.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

43.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

44.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

47.

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.

48.

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

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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.

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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.