Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

Best Quotes about Kindness

Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible

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

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

Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho

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

William Wordsworth

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sophocles

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

Talmud, The

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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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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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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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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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Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Aeschylus

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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 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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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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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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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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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Francke, Katherine

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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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