Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

Florence Scovel Shinn, Artist

"I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Can't really despise people you don't know"

Richard D. James, Musician

"Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy"

Napolean Hill, Author

"If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle"

Freya Stark, Writer

"The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

"I feel for the players"

Vanna White, Celebrity

"Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF (California Junior Scholarship Foundation). We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up"

Lindsey Shaw, Actress

"When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world"

Nana Mouskouri, Musician

"I admire people who just do the right thing, not looking to screw people up. I love all people"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone"

Patty Duke, Actress

"We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances"

Rachel Corrie, Activist

"When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more"

Warren Farrell, Writer

"I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"We like where we live, and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities, and stuff, and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play, I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point"

Sean Bean, Actor

"The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims"

Jon Porter, Politician

"I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time"

Josh Lucas, Actor

"Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality"

George William Russell, Writer

"I have never felt, at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"The press always ends up being much nicer than I expect. A lot of times they say something snarky about you, but then you meet them in person and they couldn't be nicer"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart"

Kyle MacLachlan, Actor

"Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can!"

Christopher Eccleston, Actor

"Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency"

Dinesh D'Souza, Author

"I'm saddened to see that some have been misled into believing that Mr. Disney was something other than a kind, caring man"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity"

Martha Beck, Author

"But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life"

Fisher Stevens, Actor

"People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help"

Kazuo Ishiguro, Author

"I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"America is a giving nation and very compassionate"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy, as hunger is a natural call for food"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

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