Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Kindness

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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

2.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

3.

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

Talmud, The

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Sophocles

7.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

9.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

10.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

Aeschylus

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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

18.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

20.

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

21.

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

The Dalai Lama

22.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

23.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

26.

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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

30.

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

Sweetland, Ben

31.

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

Proverb, Malayan

32.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

33.

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

Francke, Katherine

34.

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

35.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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.

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

41.

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

Cicero

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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

43.

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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

46.

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

47.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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