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

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

Aesop

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

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

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

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

Sales, Soupy

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Aeschylus

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Seneca

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

William Shakespeare

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

Francke, Katherine

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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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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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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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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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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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

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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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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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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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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.