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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Margaret Cho

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

11.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

12.

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

Proverb, Malayan

14.

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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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

26.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Sales, Soupy

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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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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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Business will continue to go where invited and remain where appreciated.

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Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

32.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Seneca

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

42.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Aesop