Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Sweetland, Ben

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Cicero

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.

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

Bible

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

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

10.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

11.

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

Sales, Soupy

12.

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

13.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

14.

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

Aesop

15.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

22.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

24.

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.

25.

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

Margaret Cho

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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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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

28.

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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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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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

33.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

38.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

41.

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

Proverb, Malayan

42.

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.

43.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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 spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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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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