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 consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

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

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

Cicero

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

William Wordsworth

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Johnson, Samuel

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Francke, Katherine

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Sales, Soupy

20.

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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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

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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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Schreiner, Olive

25.

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

Aeschylus

27.

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

28.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

29.

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

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

33.

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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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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Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

37.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Bible

40.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

42.

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

43.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Johnson, Samuel

44.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

45.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good 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.

Penn, 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

47.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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