Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Sweetland, Ben

11.

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Francke, Katherine

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

19.

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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

22.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

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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

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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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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

31.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Aesop

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

Cicero

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Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

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

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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

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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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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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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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.