Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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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.

2.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

3.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

4.

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

5.

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

Wordsworth, William

6.

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

7.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

8.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

10.

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.

12.

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

William Wordsworth

13.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

14.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

15.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

16.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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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

18.

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

Hoffer, Eric

19.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

20.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

23.

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

Clark, Frank A.

24.

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

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

27.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

28.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

29.

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.

30.

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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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

32.

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

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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

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

39.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

40.

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

Aesop

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Cicero

44.

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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see