Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

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

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

10.

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

11.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

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

13.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

14.

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

15.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

16.

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

Bible

17.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

18.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Francke, Katherine

23.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Cicero

25.

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

26.

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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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

31.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

34.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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.

43.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.