Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Bible

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

Sales, Soupy

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

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.

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

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Johnson, Samuel

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

13.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Margaret Cho

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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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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

23.

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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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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Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

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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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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.

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Cicero

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

34.

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

35.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams