Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Aesop

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

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

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

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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

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

10.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Cicero

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There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

28.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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.

30.

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

32.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

33.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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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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 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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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

The Dalai Lama

45.

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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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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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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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 converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

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