Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Sweetland, Ben

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

Talmud, The

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

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.

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.

11.

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

Francke, Katherine

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

13.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

18.

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

Seneca

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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.

20.

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

The Dalai Lama

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

22.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Aesop

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

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Sophocles

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

35.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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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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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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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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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.

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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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The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

Wordsworth, William

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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.

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

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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

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Neilen, A.