Motivational Quotes

Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

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

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Aesop

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

Proverb, Malayan

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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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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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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Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

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

The Dalai Lama

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

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

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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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Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Francke, Katherine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.