Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Francke, Katherine

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Seneca

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

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

Cicero

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The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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.

21.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Talmud, The

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Aeschylus

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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

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

Proverb, Malayan

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

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

50.

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