Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Kindness

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Alan, Robert

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

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Schreiner, Olive

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

Hubbard, Kin

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

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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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

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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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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

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

18.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Malayan

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

Faber, Frederick W.

22.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Margaret Cho

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

31.

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

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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.

36.

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

Cicero

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

Talmud, The

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

40.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Sales, Soupy

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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.