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Kindness

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

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Best Quotes about Kindness

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

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Schiff, Jacqueline

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

Aeschylus

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.

Fair and softly goes far.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.

Proverb

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

Schweitzer, Albert

10.

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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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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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.

Burns, Robert

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

Margaret Cho

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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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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

21.

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

22.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

25.

Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind.

Proverb, English

26.

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

27.

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

Seneca

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

29.

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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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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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

32.

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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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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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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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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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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Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Confucius

38.

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

Sales, Soupy

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

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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

42.

Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

43.

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

Sweetland, Ben

44.

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

45.

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

Faber, Frederick W.

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

Francke, Katherine

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

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

Aesop

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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