Motivational Quotes

Kindness

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Wordsworth, William

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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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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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

18.

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

Proverb, Malayan

19.

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

Schreiner, Olive

20.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Aesop

24.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

25.

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

26.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

27.

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

28.

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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Hubbard, Kin

32.

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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

34.

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

35.

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

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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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

43.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

45.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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.

47.

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

48.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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