Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Cicero

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

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

Bible

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

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

Zadik

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

William Shakespeare

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

11.

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

Margaret Cho

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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 gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Sophocles

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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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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sales, Soupy

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Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

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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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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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As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.

Francke, Katherine

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

43.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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