Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them"

Ellis Peters, Author

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom"

Theodore Isaac Rubin, Psychologist

"I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live"

Ethel Percy Andrus, Activist

"I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels"

Vincent Frank

"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"I'm not a nice person"

Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer

"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining"

Philo, Philosopher

"I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I was different"

Brian Welch, Musician

"Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

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

Alan Alda, Actor

"You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge, it will be of any service to them"

Jupiter Hammon, Poet

"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"A lot of times people's main motives and plan in life is to hurt as many people as they can, but I think there's enough good people that help make the world a good place"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"We are not by nature cruel"

J. M. Coetzee, Author

"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange"

Dave Eggers, Writer

"I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that"

Matt LeBlanc, Actor

"Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"At the end of the day, love and compassion will win"

Terry Waite, Author

"I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping"

Red Buttons, Comedian

"A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint!"

Edward James Olmos, Actor

"When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time"

Darius Rucker, Musician

"A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy"

Sai Baba, Leader

"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"To look forward and not back, to look out and not in, and to lend a hand"

Edward Everett Hale, Clergyman

"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out!"

Nancy Reagan, First Lady

"I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"Beauty has a lot to do with character"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion"

Louise J. Kaplan, Psychoanalyst

"Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect"

Scott Hamilton, Athlete

"I have deep feelings for the welfare and comfort of others"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train"

Henry Lawson, Writer

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