Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

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"Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

Garrison Keillor

"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors"

John Calvin, Theologian

John Calvin

"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

Oprah Winfrey

"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

Walter Benjamin

"There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

Alfred Adler

"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"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 Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"Always be a little kinder than necessary"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

James M. Barrie

"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather"

Washington Irving, Writer

Washington Irving

"Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"To oblige persons often costs little and helps much"

Baltasar Gracian, Philosopher

Baltasar Gracian

"Kindness is loving people more than they deserve"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

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

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"Love other human beings as you would love yourself"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

Ho Chi Minh

"Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are"

John W. Gardner, Educator

John W. Gardner

"I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"The only way to combat fear is with love. The only way to combat hate is with love. The only way to combat darkness is with light"

Brené Brown, Author

Brené Brown

"Empathy is a choice, and it's a vulnerable choice because it means engaging with our own humanity and the humanity of others"

Brené Brown, Author

Brené Brown

"I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise"

Camille Claudel, Sculptor

Camille Claudel

"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, Dramatist

Douglas William Jerrold

"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me"

Jock Sturges, Photographer

Jock Sturges

"Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"Manners are love in a cool climate"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

Quentin Crisp

"To desire and expect nothing for oneself, and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

Ivan Turgenev

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. Cause they are"

Sam Walton, Businessman

Sam Walton

"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

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