Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

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

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

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

Cicero

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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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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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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

31.

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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