Motivational Quotes

Kindness

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Margaret Cho

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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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.

33.

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

Seneca

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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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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 have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.