Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Aeschylus

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

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

Margaret Cho

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

10.

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

William Wordsworth

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

13.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

14.

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

15.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

16.

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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

18.

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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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.

20.

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

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

22.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

24.

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

25.

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

Sweetland, Ben

26.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

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

Cicero

28.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

30.

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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Talmud, The

34.

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

35.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

39.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

40.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

44.

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

Clark, Frank A.

45.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

The Dalai Lama

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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