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Quotations by Subject: Kindness
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Lion and the Mouse
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 (1879 - 1955)
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.: Alice Munro
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.: Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.: Annie Lennox
There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.: Anonymous
Compassion is the basis of all morality.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.: Diana Spencer
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
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 (1804 - 1876)
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World
To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.: Robert J. Furey
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.: The Dalai Lama (1935 - )
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.: Whoopi Goldberg
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Macbeth", Act 1 scene 5
Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full o' the milk of human kindness.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 5
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)


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