Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Sophocles

10.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

13.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

14.

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

15.

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

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The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

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

Aesop

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

21.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

22.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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

25.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Bible

29.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

31.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

41.

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

Talmud, The

42.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

43.

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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Francke, Katherine

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

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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

50.

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.