Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

5.

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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Seneca

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Margaret Cho

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Aeschylus

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Cicero

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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

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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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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 hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Syrus, Publilius

45.

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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

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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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