Motivational Quotes

Kindness

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Malayan

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Aesop

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

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

10.

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

Wordsworth, William

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.

12.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

13.

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

Talmud, The

14.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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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

21.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

25.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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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.

29.

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

30.

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

Pascal, Blaise

31.

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

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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

37.

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.

38.

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

Seneca

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

40.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

41.

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

42.

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!