Motivational Quotes

Kindness

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

- Tennessee Williams

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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 gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Syrus, Publilius

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Aesop

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

Sophocles

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

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Wordsworth, William

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Margaret Cho