Motivational Quotes

Kindness

We hate the kindness which we understand.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Proverb, Malayan

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.

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

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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Wordsworth, William

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Nonpareil

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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 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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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

Francke, Katherine

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

19.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

28.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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

33.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Bible

42.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Sales, Soupy

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

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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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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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