Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Kindness

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Faber, Frederick W.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

12.

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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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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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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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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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

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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

20.

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

21.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

23.

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

24.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

27.

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

28.

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

30.

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

Margaret Cho

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

37.

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

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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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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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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 has more power than compulsion.

45.

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

46.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

47.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

48.

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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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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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