Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

12.

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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Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Sales, Soupy

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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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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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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 heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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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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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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

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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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.