Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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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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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Sales, Soupy

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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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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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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 loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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 kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Aeschylus

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

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

43.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Seneca

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