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

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Clark, Frank A.

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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Bible

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

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

10.

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

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

15.

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

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Talmud, The

17.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

18.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

19.

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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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.

21.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

22.

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.

23.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

24.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

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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

27.

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

28.

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

31.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

32.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

34.

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.

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Cicero

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

41.

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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

43.

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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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

45.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

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

Sophocles

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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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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

49.

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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius