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

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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

2.

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

Talmud, The

3.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

10.

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

11.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

12.

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

Schreiner, Olive

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

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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.

17.

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

Cicero

18.

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

Zadik

19.

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

20.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

23.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

24.

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

Margaret Cho

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

30.

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

Aesop

31.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

32.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.