Kindness Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1993). “The Heavenly City: A Spiritual Guidebook”, Chrysalis Books

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• If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Compassion, Wish

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.190, Penguin

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• I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Cheer, Believe, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1933). “Elbert Hubbard Speaks: Being a Selection of Inspirational Essays, Each Written in the White Heat of Inspired Heart Impulses”

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• Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

  C. I. Scofield

  Men, Justice, Grace

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• There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall

  Nature, Retirement, World

  "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

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• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Perseverance, Selfish

  William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Hate, Way, Love And Kindness

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• The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

  Frederick Greenwood

  Common, Virtue, Duty

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• Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

  P. D. James

  May, Firsts, Impressive

  P. D. James (2011). “Devices and Desires”, p.416, Vintage

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• Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

  Horace

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.

  Robert Breault

  Compassion, Understanding, Neighbor

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• Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

  Frederick William Faber

  Forgiveness, Faith, Converting

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Stupid, Popularity, Economy

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• Together we are creating a more peaceful, just and sustainable world through kindness

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Creating, Peaceful, Together

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• Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.46, Harvard University Press

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• Don't ever underestimate the importance of treating others with respect and kindness.

  Alison Levine

  Treating Others, Underestimate, Importance

  Alison Levine (2014). “On the Edge: Leadership Lessons from Mount Everest and Other Extreme Environments”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

  Julian Baggini

  Giving, Doubt, Benefits

  "The wireless disconnect" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2007.

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  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Success, Respect

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• Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

  Mother Teresa

  Smile, God, Mother

  Mother Teresa (2010). “Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others”, p.289, Image

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• Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

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• It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Tattoo, Greatness, Soul

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• Kindness will always attract kindness.

  Sophocles

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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