Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Kindness

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Aesop

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

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Joubert, Joseph

Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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

11.

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

Aeschylus

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

18.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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.

20.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

21.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

22.

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

Sales, Soupy

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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 is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Margaret Cho

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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.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

33.

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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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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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 heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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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 kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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 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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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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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.