Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Sales, Soupy

10.

Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

11.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

18.

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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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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

21.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Margaret Cho

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

34.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

44.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.