Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Margaret Cho

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

12.

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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Sophocles

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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 converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

23.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Hoffer, Eric

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

32.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Wordsworth, William

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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

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

Francke, Katherine

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

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.