Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

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.

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

Sophocles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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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.

11.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Aeschylus

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Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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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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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

19.

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

Bible

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Syrus, Publilius

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There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

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

Margaret Cho

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

William Shakespeare

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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

29.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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One kind word can warm 3 winter months.

Proverb, Japanese

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We hate the kindness which we understand.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Cicero

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

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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

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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

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

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

Sweetland, Ben

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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

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

Aesop

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

Talmud, The

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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