Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Francke, Katherine

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

The Dalai Lama

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

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

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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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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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.

Analects

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

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Margaret Cho

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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