Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

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

Sales, Soupy

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

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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 the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Cicero

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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