Kindness Quotes
2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors
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I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm…
— Joanna Trollope
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Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back…
— Sharon Stone
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Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
— Alexander Pope
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Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his…
— John McGraw
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will…
— Jupiter Hammon
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Attention to detail is the secret of success in every sphere of life, and little kindnesses, little acts of consideration, little appreciations, little confidences,. .…
— Hugh Black
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Abandon fancy theologies and imaginary ideas and do some ordinary daily work... {Engage in this work with} unswerving kindness and unending patience.
— Laozi
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Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times?…
— Pearl S. Buck
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes…
— Stephen Covey
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Love and compassion benefit both ourselves and others. Through kindness to others, your heart and mind will be peaceful and open.
— Dalai Lama
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The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a…
— John M. Tobin, Jr.
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If everybody did just one thing. Just one thing. Not even a great thing. Not a world-changing thing, just one blessing, just one act of…
— Don Altman
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
— Andre Gide
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We can start working with time if you wish," Chiang said, "till you can fly the past and the future. And then you will be…
— Richard Bach
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You may have seen people praying to an image as if it had special power. Perhaps they're wishing for the well-being of their family, for…
— Shinjo Ito
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I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
— Mother Teresa
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
— William Cowper
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The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.
— Thaddeus Golas
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BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot…
— Ambrose Bierce
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LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."
— Ambrose Bierce
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SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body…
— Ambrose Bierce
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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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PERORATION, n. The explosion of an oratorical rocket. It dazzles, but to an observer having the wrong kind of nose its most conspicuous peculiarity is…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
— Aristotle
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