Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

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

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

Bible

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

Sales, Soupy

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.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Cicero

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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

46.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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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