Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Best Quotes about Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

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

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Zadik

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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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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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 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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Clark, Frank A.

25.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Sales, Soupy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Margaret Cho

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

40.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Cicero

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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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