Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aesop

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

William Shakespeare

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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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

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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sales, Soupy

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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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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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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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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 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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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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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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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Sophocles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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