Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Sweetland, Ben

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

William Wordsworth

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

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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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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel 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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Francke, Katherine

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.