Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Talmud, The

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Sales, Soupy

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

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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

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Cicero

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

29.

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

30.

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

Francke, Katherine

31.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Seneca

35.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

36.

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

37.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

40.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

41.

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

42.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Aesop

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

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