Kindness Quotations
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Confucius
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| No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. |
| - Aesop |
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| Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Kindness is the greatest wisdom. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Love someone who doesn't deserve it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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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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| There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed. |
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| The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Always be a little kinder than necessary. |
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie |
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| Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. |
| - Sir James Matthew Barrie |
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| A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. |
| - Dave Barry |
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| To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. |
| - Max Beerbohm |
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| Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. |
| - Dan Bennett |
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| Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. |
| - Robert Brault |
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| Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. |
| - H. Jackson Jr. Brown |
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| Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. |
| - Leo Buscaglia |
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| How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. |
| - George Washington Carver |
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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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| By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. |
| - Cicero |
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| Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. |
| - Confucius |
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| Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. |
| - Confucius |
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| There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. |
| - Confucius |
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| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. |
| - Marian Wright Edelman |
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| A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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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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| Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. |
| - Mary Engelbreit |
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| We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. |
| - Epictetus |
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| Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. |
| - William Feather |
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| The more sympathy you give, the less you need. |
| - Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. |
| - Anne Frank |
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| If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. |
| - Abraham Joshua Heschel |
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| If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. |
| - Bob Hope |
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| Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. |
| - Jesse Jackson |
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| Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. |
| - Rudyard Kipling |
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| The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. |
| - Charles Kuralt |
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| Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. |
| - Og Mandino |
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| Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. |
| - William Penn |
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| Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. |
| - Alexander Pope |
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| If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
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| A kind word is like a Spring day. |
| - Russian Proverb |
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| The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Compassion is the basis of all morality. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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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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| If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. |
| - Frank Tyger |
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| One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. |
| - Booker T. Washington |
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| I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. |
| - Tennessee Williams |
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| You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. |
| - John Wooden |
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| The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. |
| - William Wordsworth |
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