Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"Be loving and kind. Call everyone to your table of kindness"

Ma Jaya, Teacher

"I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences"

John Denver, Musician

"I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights"

Kim Novak, Actress

"And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it"

Aaron McGruder, Artist

"There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves"

Robert Quillen, Journalist

"You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"It's not nice to make fun of people with issues"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness, or whatever"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men"

Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician

"If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative"

Joanna Lumley, Actress

"Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater"

William E. Simon, Public Servant

"Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood"

Janet Frame, Novelist

"We have lost the art of sharing and caring"

Hun Sen, Statesman

"Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did"

Kevin Garnett, Athlete

"I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something"

Boy George, Musician

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"What kind of man would I have been if I had not been there to help her? I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached"

Charles Bronson, Actor

"Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth"

Alvin Adams, Businessman

"Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another"

Grantland Rice, Journalist

"I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me, which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, "Poor thing". I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better"

Elijah Wood, Actor

"True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort"

Humphry Davy, Scientist

"I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual"

Sam Elliott, Actor

"My parents would always say, 'It doesn't matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated'"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"People first, then money, then things"

Suze Orman, Author

"I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in"

Judd Nelson, Actor

"Be good. Do good"

L. M. Heroux, Writer

"Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers"

Gerald Massey, Poet

"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it"

An Wang, Businessman

"Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them"

Fannie Hurst, Writer

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