Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- The Dalai Lama

Best Quotes about Kindness

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

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

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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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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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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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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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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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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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.

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Wordsworth, William

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

Sophocles

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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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