Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Cicero

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Talmud, The

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

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

Aeschylus

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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

24.

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

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Aesop

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

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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

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

The Dalai Lama

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Kindness is 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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

40.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb