Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Sales, Soupy

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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.

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

12.

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

Proverb, Malayan

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

17.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aeschylus

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

21.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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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 always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Cicero

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Bible

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Neilen, A.

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese