Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Zadik

Best Quotes about Kindness

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Seneca

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

10.

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

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

20.

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

Talmud, The

21.

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

34.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

36.

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

37.

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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

39.

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

Sales, Soupy

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