Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

The Dalai Lama

10.

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

11.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

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

Sales, Soupy

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

32.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

33.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cicero

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Sweetland, Ben

41.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

Seneca

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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

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Talmud, The

49.

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