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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Margaret Cho

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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

11.

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

Aeschylus

12.

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

Talmud, The

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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 consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

18.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

19.

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

Aesop

20.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

21.

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

Syrus, Publilius

22.

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

23.

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

Sales, Soupy

24.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

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

William Wordsworth

26.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

27.

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

29.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

Cicero

31.

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.

32.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

33.

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

Pascal, Blaise

35.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

36.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

37.

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

38.

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

The Dalai Lama

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

James, Henry

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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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

46.

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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

49.

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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius