Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Kindness

1.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

2.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

3.

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

4.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

6.

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

7.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

8.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Wordsworth, William

10.

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

11.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

16.

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

17.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

18.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

19.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

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

Schreiner, Olive

21.

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

Sweetland, Ben

22.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

23.

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

24.

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

Aesop

25.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

26.

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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Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Burton, Henry

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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

29.

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.

30.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

31.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

34.

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

Hoffer, Eric

35.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

36.

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

37.

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

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

Sales, Soupy

39.

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

Margaret Cho

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

43.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

47.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

48.

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 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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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness.

William Shakespeare