Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Bible

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Margaret Cho

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 has more power than compulsion.

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

32.

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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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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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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

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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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Aesop

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

44.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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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.

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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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