Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude!"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it, even for a minute"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty"

Phaedrus, Poet

"Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it"

Lucy Larcom, Poet

"Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated, but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better"

Jerry Springer, Celebrity

"Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination, and prolonged by a hundred echos"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: Sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around"

Edgar Watson Howe, Editor

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"Tenderness is a virtue"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"The brave love mercy, and delight to save"

John Gay, Poet

"Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save"

John Gay, Poet

"Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human tenderness"

Rollo May, Psychologist

"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour"

Jose Marti, Activist

"He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Every day, nay, every moment, try to do some good deed"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Write me as one that loves his fellow-men"

H. L. Hunt, Businessman

"Where I live, if someone gives you a hug, it's from the heart"

Steve Irwin, Scientist

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"I'm basically a gift-giver"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"God blesses him who helps his brother"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down"

Jimmy Durante, Comedian

"Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down"

Jimmy Durante, Comedian

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