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(481 votes) Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Philo
2nd Century, Byzantine Scientist

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(1014 votes) Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(931 votes) He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(715 votes) Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

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(705 votes) No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop
620-560 BC, Greek Fabulist

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(663 votes) Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa
1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

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(657 votes) Be the kind of person you would like to be with.

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(647 votes) The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.

Robert Alan

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(634 votes) Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(633 votes) One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(625 votes) The best portion of a good man's life is in his little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(623 votes) The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.

Robert Alan

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(604 votes) 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 unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Analects

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(603 votes) Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(594 votes) To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(588 votes) "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

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(582 votes) Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, Till in Heaven the deed appears, Pass it on.

Henry Burton

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(574 votes) Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis
American Expert on Relationship & Love, Author

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(573 votes) Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(566 votes) Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(555 votes) Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. [Ephesians]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(553 votes) Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

Sir Arthur Helps
1813-1875, British Historian, Novelist, Essayist

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(552 votes) A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(550 votes) Fair and softly goes far.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(544 votes) There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus
BC 525-456, Greek Dramatist

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(544 votes) Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(515 votes) Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

Sir James M. Barrie
1860-1937, British Playwright

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(501 votes) Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.

Wilson Mizner
1876-1933, American Author

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(496 votes) Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James
1843-1916, American Author

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(494 votes) The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer
1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher

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(494 votes) You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(486 votes) My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner

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(485 votes) A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William John Bennett
1943-, American Federal Official

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(485 votes) So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1855-1919, American Poet, Journalist

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(484 votes) Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

John Wesley
1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism

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(483 votes) There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot.

Leroy Jack Syrop

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(482 votes) A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author

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(480 votes) He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

Douglas William Jerrold
1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright

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(472 votes) We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(471 votes) 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.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(470 votes) Kindness is wisdom.

Philip James Bailey
1816-1902, British Poet

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(466 votes) 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
1886-1965, German Protestant Theologian, Philosopher

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(456 votes) Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Zoroaster
BC 628?-551?, Persian Religious Leader-Founder of Zoroastrianism

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(454 votes) Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore I. Rubin

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(449 votes) Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.

Elizabeth I
1533-1603, Queen of England and Ireland (1558--1603)

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(449 votes) It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Scott Elledge

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(445 votes) Kindness out of season destroys authority.

Sandi

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(445 votes) Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Jacqueline Schiff

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(443 votes) If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it, you would find You'd soon forget to think 'twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad, And cheering people who are sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You'd soon forget to notice it.

R. Foreman

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(431 votes) 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
1949-, American Actress, Comedian

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