Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

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

The Dalai Lama

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

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

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

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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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

11.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Talmud, The

18.

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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

20.

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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

23.

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.

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

Sophocles

25.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

26.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

28.

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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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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

Aesop

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

Francke, Katherine

36.

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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor