Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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

Sales, Soupy

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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

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cicero

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Aesop

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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