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

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

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

Margaret Cho

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Aesop

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Francke, Katherine

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

15.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

32.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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.

34.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Talmud, The

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

Sales, Soupy

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

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

Sophocles

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

Cicero

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

William Wordsworth

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

46.

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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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Joubert, Joseph