Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Aeschylus

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sophocles

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

10.

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

11.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

18.

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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The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

20.

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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If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

22.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Sweetland, Ben

24.

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

25.

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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

27.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

32.

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

Sales, Soupy

33.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

34.

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

Aesop

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

44.

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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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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.