Motivational Quotes

Kindness

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

14.

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

Clark, Frank A.

15.

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

16.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

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

18.

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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Francke, Katherine

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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

23.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wordsworth, William

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

30.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Margaret Cho

32.

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

Proverb, Malayan

33.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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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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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I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

45.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

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

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If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

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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 has more power than compulsion.