Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

16.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

19.

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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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Aeschylus

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

Aesop

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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.

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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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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

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

Margaret Cho

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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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One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan