Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

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

10.

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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

17.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

22.

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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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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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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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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Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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.

30.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero

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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 gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

37.

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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Aesop

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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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 heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

49.

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

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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.