Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Sophocles

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Wordsworth, William

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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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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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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Clark, Frank A.

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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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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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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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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

19.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

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

Cicero

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Francke, Katherine

31.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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 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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Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

38.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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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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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Seneca

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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

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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

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

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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius