Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Francke, Katherine

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Proverb, Malayan

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

10.

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

11.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

12.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

13.

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.

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

16.

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

Schreiner, Olive

17.

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

18.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

20.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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

31.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

32.

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.

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

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

Cicero

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

Sophocles

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

40.

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.

41.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Schweitzer, Albert

44.

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

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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