Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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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

3.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

4.

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

Margaret Cho

5.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

6.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

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

11.

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

Wordsworth, William

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

The Dalai Lama

17.

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

18.

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

Talmud, The

19.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

20.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

21.

That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Aeschylus

25.

Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

26.

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

27.

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

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

29.

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

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.

31.

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

Neilen, A.

32.

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

Sweetland, Ben

33.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

Hubbard, Kin

34.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.