Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Sophocles

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

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

15.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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.

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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

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

Aesop

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

Cicero

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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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

William Wordsworth

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

Neilen, A.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

31.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

36.

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

Sales, Soupy

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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

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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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

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Schreiner, Olive