Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Talmud, The

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

Schweitzer, Albert

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

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

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

Seneca

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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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

11.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

12.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

13.

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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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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

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

Cicero

18.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Francke, Katherine

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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

21.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

24.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

25.

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 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

28.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

32.

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

Sophocles

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

34.

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

35.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

43.

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

Zadik

45.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

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