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Get Inspired for Virtue 3: Humanity and Interpersonal Strengths

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.  

- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.  

- Frederick W Faber  

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 for  

- R Foreman  

As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech.  

- Katherine Francke  

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.  

- Kahlil Gibran  

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.  

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe  

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  

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

- Sir Arthur Helps  

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.  

- Eric Hoffer  

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.  

- Robert Green Ingersoll  

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

- Washington Irving  

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  

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.  

- Samuel Johnson  

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.  

- Samuel Johnson  

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.  

- Joseph Joubert  

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.  

- Lao-Tzu  

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  

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.  

- Mother Teresa  

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.  

- A Neilen  

If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?  

- Nonpareil  

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.  

- Blaise Pascal  

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good 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.  

- William Penn  

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.  

- Philo  

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.  

- George D Prentice  

Kind words are worth much and they cost little.  

- Proverb  

Kindness begets kindness.  

- Greek Proverb  

One kind word can warm 3 winter months.  

- Japanese Proverb  

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.  

- Malayan Proverb  

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.  

- Randolph Ray  

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.  

- Franklin D Roosevelt  

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.  

- Theodore I Rubin  

Kindness out of season destroys authority.  

- Sandi  

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.  

- Jacqueline Schiff  

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

- Olive Schreiner  

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.  

- Albert Schweitzer  

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

- Albert Schweitzer  

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness  

- Seneca  

Kindness gives birth to kindness.  

- Sophocles  

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

- Sophocles  

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.  

- C Neil Strait  

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  

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.  

- Ben Sweetland  

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.  

- Publilius Syrus  

By doing simple acts of kindness for others, we can't help but lift ourselves up, too.  

- Source Unknown  

Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.  

- Source Unknown  

The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today.  

- Source Unknown  

Kindness and honesty can be expected only from the strong.  

- Source Unknown  

If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them.  

- Source Unknown  

I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind  

- Source Unknown  

Be the kind of person you would like to be with.  

- Source Unknown  

Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.  

- Source Unknown  

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.  

- Source Unknown  

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.  

- Source Unknown  

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  

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  

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

- William Wordsworth  

Little kindnesses, will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.  

- Zadik  

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

- Zoroaster  

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