Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

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"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for others' good, and melt at others' woe"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"To find people who don't want anything is rare"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

Lindsay Lohan

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

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others"

Homer, Poet

Homer

"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think"

Victoria Principal, Actress

Victoria Principal

"A person may rightfully be happy if, in this life, he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people"

Islom Karimov, Statesman

"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting"

Christian Bale, Actor

Christian Bale

"I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things"

Martin Scorsese, Director

Martin Scorsese

"Man is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

Morgan Freeman

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

Angela Carter, Novelist

Angela Carter

"The more you give, the more you can give"

Roy T. Bennett, Writer

Roy T. Bennett

"I feel like anything I'm doing in life, I try to stay myself and be as honest and true as I can be, you know, and be a nice person. I've always been taught to be kind to people and have an open mind about life"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

Liam Hemsworth

"There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"I mean, I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?"

Dustin Hoffman, Actor

"Compassion is a two way street"

Frank Capra, Director

"You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

Daphne Zuniga

"To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; his chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow"

William Dunbar, Poet

William Dunbar

"South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves, who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead"

Charles M. Schwab, Businessman

"No one has ever become poor by giving"

Anne Frank, Writer

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world"

Anne Frank, Writer

"Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

Anita Roddick

"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"Those who would make us feel must feel themselves"

Charles Churchill, Poet

"See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt"

Jean Racine, Dramatist

"It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another!"

Jeff Miller, Politician

Jeff Miller

"I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Through our willingness to help others, we can learn to be happy rather than depressed"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul"

Langston Hughes, Poet

Langston Hughes

"There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving"

Henry Drummond, Writer

"The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world"

Marianne Williamson, Author

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