Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

Sales, Soupy

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

Sophocles

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.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

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

10.

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

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

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

Aeschylus

13.

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

Sweetland, Ben

14.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

15.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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.

19.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

20.

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

21.

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

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

23.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

24.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

26.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

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

Clark, Frank A.

29.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

Joubert, Joseph

32.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

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

The Dalai Lama

34.

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

35.

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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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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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

38.

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

39.

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

Zadik

40.

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

Seneca

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

Margaret Cho