Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.

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

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

Margaret Cho

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Schreiner, Olive

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

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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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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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

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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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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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To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Johnson, Samuel

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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

The Dalai Lama

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

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sophocles

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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

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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

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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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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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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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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green