Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

2.

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

3.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

4.

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

5.

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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

7.

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

8.

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

Syrus, Publilius

9.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Cicero

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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

14.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

15.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

16.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Sophocles

20.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

21.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

22.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

23.

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

24.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

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

26.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

27.

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

28.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

29.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

30.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

34.

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

35.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

36.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

37.

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

38.

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

Sales, Soupy

39.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

40.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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.

45.

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.

46.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

47.

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

48.

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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