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

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

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Johnson, Samuel

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

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

Sweetland, Ben

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

Foreman, R.

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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.

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

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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