Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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.

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Bible

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Faber, Frederick W.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Neilen, A.

12.

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

13.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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

17.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

18.

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

Talmud, The

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

25.

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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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

27.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Aesop

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Francke, Katherine

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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

34.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sophocles

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

40.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

42.

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

Schreiner, Olive

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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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 kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Hubbard, Kin