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 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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Cicero

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

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

Aeschylus

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

Seneca

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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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Margaret Cho

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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

25.

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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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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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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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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

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wordsworth, William

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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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Syrus, Publilius

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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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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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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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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

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There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Aesop

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare