Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Francke, Katherine

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Cicero

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Neilen, A.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

10.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

11.

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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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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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

15.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

18.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

19.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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

25.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

27.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

28.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

33.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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

36.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

41.

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

44.

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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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

46.

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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

48.

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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

50.

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.