Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

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"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

"Always give an autograph when somebody asks you"

Tommy Lasorda, Coach

"No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

Martin Yan

"Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

Whoopi Goldberg

"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, Actress

Whoopi Goldberg

"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment"

Tony Robbins, Author

Tony Robbins

"Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel"

Maxwell Maltz, Scientist

Maxwell Maltz

"The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter"

Norman Cousins, Author

"There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own"

Edwin Markham, Poet

Edwin Markham

"A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need"

Edwin Markham, Poet

Edwin Markham

"May my soul bloom in love for all existence"

Rudolf Steiner, Philosopher

Rudolf Steiner

"We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"For even in dreams, a good deed is not lost"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Kindness makes a fellow feel good, whether it's being done to him or by him"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world!"

George H. W. Bush, President

George H. W. Bush

"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good"

Antonio Porchia, Poet

Antonio Porchia

"Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

Jeff Bezos

"It's harder to be kind than clever"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

Jeff Bezos

"My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

Jeff Bezos

"Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

Jeff Bezos

"What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy - they’re given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you’re not careful, and if you do, it’ll probably be to the detriment of your choices"

Jeff Bezos, Businessman

Jeff Bezos

"Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children"

Sam Levenson, Author

"I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind"

Matthew Prior, Poet

"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"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

"Tenderness is a virtue"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"What is a hero without love for mankind?"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"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

"I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps"

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"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

Georg Buchner

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

Abu Bakr, Leader

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