Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Faber, Frederick W.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

Bible

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

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Aesop

12.

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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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.

14.

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

Sales, Soupy

15.

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

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero

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Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

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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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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It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Syrus, Publilius

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

28.

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

29.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

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

31.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

Seneca

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

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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

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Hubbard, Kin