Motivational Quotes

Kindness

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

- Bennett, William John

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

10.

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

Aeschylus

11.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

12.

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

13.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

14.

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

Pascal, Blaise

15.

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

16.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

18.

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

Sales, Soupy

19.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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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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Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

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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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

25.

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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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

27.

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Aesop

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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

Talmud, The

33.

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

34.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The Dalai Lama

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Margaret Cho

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

49.

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

50.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De