Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Wordsworth, William

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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

13.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Talmud, The

15.

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 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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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

19.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Francke, Katherine

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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 spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

27.

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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Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Strait, C. Neil

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

32.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

33.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

37.

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.

38.

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

Sales, Soupy

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

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

Cicero

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Aeschylus

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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

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pascal, Blaise