Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Kindness

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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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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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

4.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

Hubbard, Kin

8.

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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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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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

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

12.

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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

14.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Cicero

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

Aeschylus

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

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

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

21.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

22.

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.

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

Margaret Cho

25.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

29.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

30.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Talmud, The

32.

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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

38.

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

Proverb, Malayan

39.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

40.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

41.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

42.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

43.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

47.

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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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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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.