Kindness Quotes
2398 Kindness quotes by 1323 unique authors
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Often what we take for a kindness is just someone acting in their capacity as a human being.
— Robert Breault
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There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.
— Robert Breault
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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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Happy Thursday! Life at work and at home is so much HAPPIER when you speak and act with kindness!! Share a SMILE and make it…
— Tracey Edmonds
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Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.
— Martin Pistorius
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Loving-kindness is required, but a follower of Christ-just like the Master-will be firm in the truth.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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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…
— Confucius
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
— Seneca the Younger
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Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
— Jules Renard
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Requite injury with kindness.
— Laozi
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
— Publilius Syrus
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The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
— William Butler Yeats
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Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and…
— Thomas Szasz
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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
— Juvenal
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How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. It is a psychological truth that the physical acts of reverence and devotion make one…
— Dorothy Day
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It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and…
— Oliver Sacks
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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!
— Paul Tillich
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
— Hosea Ballou
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A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious.
— Pierre Corneille
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An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.
— Robert James Waller
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Kindness and patience were always called for ...
— Flannery O'Connor
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I like to pretend that I'm a tough guy. It's kind of an admission of defeat if I have to ask for help - or…
— Mary-Louise Parker
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With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level…
— Gabrielle Reece
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