Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

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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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

28.

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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

30.

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

Talmud, The

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

33.

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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Aeschylus

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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