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

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

The Dalai Lama

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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.

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Johnson, Samuel

15.

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

Proverb, Malayan

16.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

17.

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

Talmud, The

18.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

19.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

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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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

25.

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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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

29.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

30.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

31.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

32.

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Hoffer, Eric

38.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

39.

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

40.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

41.

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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

43.

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

Syrus, Publilius

44.

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

Neilen, A.

45.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

Aesop

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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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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