Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Clark, Frank A.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Proverb, Malayan

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

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

10.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Bible

15.

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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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

19.

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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

23.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

24.

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

28.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

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

33.

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

Sales, Soupy

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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

38.

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

39.

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

Aeschylus

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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 is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

The Dalai Lama

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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Francke, Katherine