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

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

Sales, Soupy

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

William Wordsworth

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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

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

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Wordsworth, William

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

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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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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

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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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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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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 has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Faber, Frederick W.

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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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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Be kind to unkind people -- they need it the most.

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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

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Talmud, The

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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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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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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

32.

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.

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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

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

Seneca

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.