Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

- Schiff, Jacqueline

Best Quotes about Kindness

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.

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

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

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

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

Cicero

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

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

10.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

20.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

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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

30.

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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

33.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

William Wordsworth

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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Sales, Soupy

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.