Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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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Best Quotes about Kindness

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Clark, Frank A.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

11.

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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

13.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

William Shakespeare

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

Aeschylus

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

Cicero

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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 loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Aesop

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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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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 loved thee beautiful and kind, And plighted an eternal vow; So altered are thy face and mind,t'were perjury to love thee now!

Tillich, Paul

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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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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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