Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Clark, Frank A.

Best Quotes about Kindness

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Neilen, A.

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

Margaret Cho

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

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Sweetland, Ben

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

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

Seneca

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

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

Aeschylus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Aesop

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

35.

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

Cicero

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

39.

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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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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