Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Sales, Soupy

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wordsworth, William

10.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

11.

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

12.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

13.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

14.

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

Francke, Katherine

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

16.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

18.

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

Aesop

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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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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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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

23.

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

25.

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

Sweetland, Ben

26.

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 consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Faber, Frederick W.

32.

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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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

35.

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

Seneca

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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]

Bible

38.

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

Neilen, A.

39.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Clark, Frank A.

41.

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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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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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.

44.

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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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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius