Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"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

"Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level"

Rita Dove, Poet

"Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick"

Lin Yutang, Author

"But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"If you care enough, you make a difference"

Loretta Swit, Actress

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"I do not like to be unkind"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"If people did not compliment one another, there would be little society"

Luc de Clapiers, Writer

"You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is"

Kim Campbell, Statesman

"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people"

Lena Horne, Actress

"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence"

James Allen, Author

"To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own"

Tryon Edwards, Theologian

"In so doing, use him as though you loved him"

Izaak Walton, Writer

"Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust"

Jesus Christ, Prophet

"I'd rather be remembered for what I gave away than what I kept"

MrBeast, Celebrity

"The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just"

Pope Francis, Pope

"In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Everyone responds to kindness"

Richard Gere, Actor

"Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"I want to make the world better"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous"

Thomas Browne, Scientist

"Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic"

Richard Stallman, Scientist

"If we need to be reminded to love one another, then we have already lost sight of the very essence of our existence"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least"

Richard Gere, Actor

"We decided that how we react to and treat those fellow mortals, wild and domestic, tells us more about ourselves than, perhaps, some of us want to know"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you"

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady

"Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

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