Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

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.

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

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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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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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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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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Talmud, The

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Sales, Soupy

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Alan, Robert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Seneca