Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Wordsworth, William

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

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

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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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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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

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

The Dalai Lama

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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

33.

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

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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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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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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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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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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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 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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Joubert, Joseph

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