Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Aesop

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

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

Aeschylus

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

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

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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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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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

39.

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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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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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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Margaret Cho

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

Syrus, Publilius