Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Margaret Cho

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

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

Aesop

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Talmud, The

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Aeschylus

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

Sales, Soupy

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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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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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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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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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

28.

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

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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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