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 do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, Malayan

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

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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

19.

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

20.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

Aeschylus

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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.

23.

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

24.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

28.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

33.

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

34.

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 heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

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The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Alan, Robert

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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

40.

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

The Dalai Lama

41.

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

Aesop

42.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

43.

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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

46.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

47.

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 out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

49.

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

Sales, Soupy

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English