Motivational Quotes

Kindness

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Neilen, A.

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

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Clark, Frank A.

12.

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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

21.

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 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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Talmud, The

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

Cicero

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aesop

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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