Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schreiner, Olive

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Sophocles

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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 heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Seneca

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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 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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles