Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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.

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

Neilen, A.

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

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

12.

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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By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.

14.

It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Clark, Frank A.

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

18.

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

Sales, Soupy

19.

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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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.

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Hubbard, Kin

26.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

30.

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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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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

35.

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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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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

William Wordsworth

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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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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

42.

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

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

Talmud, The

44.

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

Francke, Katherine

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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

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb, Malayan

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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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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