Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Proverb, Malayan

Best Quotes about Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

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

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

Aesop

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

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

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Talmud, The

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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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Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

21.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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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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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cicero

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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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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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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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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 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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Seneca

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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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell