Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Barrie, Sir James M.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

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

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Aeschylus

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

10.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

13.

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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

15.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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

20.

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

Bible

21.

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 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

23.

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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

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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.

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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 has more power than compulsion.

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

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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