Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

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

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

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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hubbard, Kin

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Seneca

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Talmud, The

15.

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

Proverb, Malayan

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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.

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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

24.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

25.

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

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

27.

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

28.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

31.

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

Sales, Soupy

32.

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

Schreiner, Olive

33.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

34.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

37.

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

Aeschylus

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

40.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

41.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

45.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.