Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

- Sandi

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Aeschylus

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

16.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

19.

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clark, Frank A.

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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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

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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

31.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

33.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

35.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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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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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 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

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

Aesop

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

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius