Motivational Quotes

Kindness

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

William Wordsworth

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Wordsworth, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Talmud, The

10.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

11.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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 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

15.

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

16.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cicero

17.

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

Francke, Katherine

18.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.

Neilen, A.

19.

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

20.

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

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

23.

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

Sophocles

24.

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

25.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

26.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

28.

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

30.

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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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

32.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

33.

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

34.

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

35.

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

Seneca

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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

37.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

38.

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

39.

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

Barrie, Sir James M.

40.

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

41.

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

Aeschylus

44.

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

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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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.