Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Francke, Katherine

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

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.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Syrop, Leroy Jack

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

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

10.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

11.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

15.

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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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

Sales, Soupy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

24.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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

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

30.

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

32.

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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

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.

35.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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