Motivational Quotes

Kindness

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Sales, Soupy

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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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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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

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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.

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Cicero

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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 is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Swedenborg, Emanuel

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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