Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Sophocles

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

11.

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.

12.

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

14.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Talmud, The

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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

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

22.

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

23.

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

Schreiner, Olive

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

27.

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

29.

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

Bible

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Cicero

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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

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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

36.

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

37.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Proverb, Malayan

42.

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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Sales, Soupy

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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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

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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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Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik