Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Kindness

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.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Seneca

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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

20.

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

Aeschylus

21.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Francke, Katherine

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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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.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

41.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Sales, Soupy