Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Cicero

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sales, Soupy

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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.

42.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Hoffer, Eric