Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

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.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

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

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

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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

11.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

18.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

21.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

26.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Aesop

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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

35.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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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