Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

- Sandi

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

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

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

Cicero

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

Aesop

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

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

10.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

11.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

14.

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.

15.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

16.

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 gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

28.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Zadik

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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

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

37.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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

42.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

43.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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

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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