Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Johnson, Samuel

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

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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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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 is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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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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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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Francke, Katherine

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

The Dalai Lama

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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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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.