Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bible

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Wordsworth, William

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Cicero

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Aeschylus

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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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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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

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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

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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