Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Zadik

Best Quotes about Kindness

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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

Aesop

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Schweitzer, Albert

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

11.

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 out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

13.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Clark, Frank A.

15.

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

16.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

17.

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

Sales, Soupy

18.

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

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

21.

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

22.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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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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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 the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

Johnson, Samuel

27.

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

Sweetland, Ben

28.

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

Wordsworth, William

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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

33.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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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 and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

37.

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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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

Talmud, The

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Barrie, Sir James M.