Quotes about kindness

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve."

Joubert, Joseph on kindness
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down."

Mizner, Wilson on kindness   

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa on kindness
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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 on kindness
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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. on kindness   

"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 on kindness
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

Pascal, Blaise on kindness   

"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 on kindness
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Philo on kindness
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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. on kindness   

"Kind words are worth much and they cost little."

Proverb on kindness
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"Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind."

Proverb, English on kindness
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"Kindness begets kindness."

Proverb, Greek on kindness   

"One kind word can warm 3 winter months."

Proverb, Japanese on kindness   

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

Proverb, Malayan on kindness   

"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 on kindness
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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. on kindness
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."

Rubin, Theodore I. on kindness   

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

Sales, Soupy on kindness   

"Kindness out of season destroys authority."

Sandi on kindness   

"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."

Schiff, Jacqueline on kindness   

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

Schreiner, Olive on kindness   

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

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"

Seneca on kindness
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"Kindness gives birth to kindness."

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

Sophocles on kindness
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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 on kindness   

"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 on kindness   

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

Sweetland, Ben on kindness   

"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 on kindness   

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

Syrus, Publilius on kindness   

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

Syrus, Publilius on kindness   

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

Talmud, The on kindness   

"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 on kindness   

"Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself."

Teresa of Avila, St. on kindness   

"We hate the kindness which we understand."

Thoreau, Henry David on kindness   

"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 on kindness   

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

Unknown, Source on kindness