Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Hoffer, Eric

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.

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

Francke, Katherine

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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.

10.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

11.

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

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

13.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Cicero

16.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

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

Pascal, Blaise

21.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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.

23.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare

24.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

25.

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

Sales, Soupy

26.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

27.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

28.

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

29.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

30.

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

31.

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

Bible

32.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

33.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Clark, Frank A.

38.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Talmud, The

40.

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

Margaret Cho

41.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

45.

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

46.

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

Aeschylus

47.

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

48.

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

Wordsworth, William

49.

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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.