Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

14.

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

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Sales, Soupy

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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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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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Syrus, Publilius

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

26.

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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero

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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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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

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Aesop

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

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

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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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Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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