Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Sweetland, Ben

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.

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

Sales, Soupy

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

William Shakespeare

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

10.

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

Francke, Katherine

11.

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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

13.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

14.

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

Sophocles

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

16.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

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

Schreiner, Olive

18.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

22.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

23.

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

Neilen, A.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

27.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

28.

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.

29.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

30.

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

31.

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

The Dalai Lama

32.

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

Bible

33.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aesop

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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

38.

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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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.

40.

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

41.

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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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

43.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

45.

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

Zadik

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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

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

Margaret Cho