Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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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

2.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

3.

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

4.

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

Schreiner, Olive

5.

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

6.

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

Sales, Soupy

7.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

8.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

9.

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

Proverb, Malayan

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

13.

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

14.

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

The Dalai Lama

15.

By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.

16.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

22.

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

23.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

24.

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

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

28.

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

Francke, Katherine

29.

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

Syrus, Publilius

30.

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

33.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

34.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

36.

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

Wordsworth, William

38.

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 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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

46.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

47.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

48.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

49.

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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles