Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Margaret Cho

Best Quotes about Kindness

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Sales, Soupy

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Seneca

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

Aeschylus

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By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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 always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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