Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Wordsworth, William

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Syrus, Publilius

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

13.

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

14.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

16.

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

Aeschylus

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

Talmud, The

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

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

Schreiner, Olive

24.

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

Sales, Soupy

25.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

30.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

32.

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

33.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

34.

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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

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 makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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.

41.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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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

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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Margaret Cho

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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

48.

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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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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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