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

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

10.

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

11.

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

14.

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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

16.

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.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

18.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

19.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

23.

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

Aeschylus

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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.

25.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

Margaret Cho

27.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Zadik

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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

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

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

The Dalai Lama

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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 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 kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert