Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Kindness

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

The Dalai Lama

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

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

11.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

12.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

14.

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

Aesop

15.

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

Cicero

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Seneca

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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.

21.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

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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.

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

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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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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Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

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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

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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 has more power than compulsion.