Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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]

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4.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

5.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

15.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Cicero

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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.

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

Talmud, The

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

Proverb, Malayan

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

28.

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.

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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

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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.

31.

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

Pascal, Blaise

32.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

33.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Sophocles

43.

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

44.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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

Zadik

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

Schweitzer, Albert

48.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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

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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.