Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

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

Zadik

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

14.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

15.

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

Syrus, Publilius

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

The Dalai Lama

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

26.

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

William Wordsworth

27.

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

Sophocles

28.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

30.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

31.

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

32.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Francke, Katherine

35.

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

Hubbard, Kin

36.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

37.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

38.

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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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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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.

41.

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