Motivational Quotes

Kindness

We hate the kindness which we understand.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Kindness

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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.

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

10.

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

Talmud, The

11.

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

12.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

13.

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

Sweetland, Ben

14.

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

15.

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

17.

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

Seneca

18.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Strait, C. Neil

20.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

21.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hoffer, Eric

25.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Sophocles

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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

30.

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, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

32.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

35.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

36.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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.

38.

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

Francke, Katherine

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Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.