Motivational Quotes

Kindness

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert

2.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

3.

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.

4.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

5.

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

Joubert, Joseph

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Proverb, Malayan

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

15.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

16.

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

Aeschylus

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

20.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

24.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

26.

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

Clark, Frank A.

27.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Schreiner, Olive

36.

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

Johnson, Samuel

37.

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

38.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

41.

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

Hubbard, Kin

42.

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

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

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

Neilen, A.

46.

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.

47.

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

Aesop

48.

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

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