Motivational Quotes

Kindness

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

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

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

The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

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

Margaret Cho

10.

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

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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

Sophocles

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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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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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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Francke, Katherine

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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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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

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

Talmud, The

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

30.

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

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Seneca

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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.

34.

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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

36.

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

The Dalai Lama

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

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.