Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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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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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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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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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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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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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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Cicero

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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 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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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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By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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 more power than compulsion.

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