Motivational Quotes

Kindness

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

- Schreiner, Olive

Best Quotes about Kindness

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Proverb, Malayan

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

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Sweetland, Ben

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

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

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

Seneca

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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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Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

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

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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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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 is loving people more than they deserve.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Neilen, A.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

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

Aeschylus

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Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

James, Henry

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Kindness has more power than compulsion.

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

39.

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

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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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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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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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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Bennett, William John

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