Motivational Quotes

Kindness

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

- Burns, Robert

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

The Dalai Lama

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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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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

Wordsworth, William

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

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Aesop

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

Cicero

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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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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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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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