Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine"

Ray Charles, Musician

"I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy"

Frank Knox, Public Servant

"There's nobody in show business that I dislike, so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody"

Robert Goulet, Musician

"You cannot raise a man up by calling him down"

William J. H. Boetcker, Clergyman

"Actors are very generous"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside"

Krista Allen, Actress

"If we do not want to be pained by anybody, we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others?"

Morarji Desai, Politician

"People treat me nice 'cos I treat them nice"

Coolio, Musician

"It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean"

Tina Brown, Editor

"At the end of the day, you either want or you don't want to know about it. It's a mercy thing - you have to give back. However you do it, you have to give something back. You have to"

Thierry Henry, Athlete

"I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world', and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness"

Harold Kushner, Clergyman

"Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts"

Katie Couric, Journalist

"When you carry out acts of kindness, you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel"

Harold Kushner, Clergyman

"Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear"

Susie Bright, Writer

"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something"

Peter Coyote, Actor

"There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you"

Neil Cavuto, Journalist

"I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that"

Tom Cruise, Actor

"One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another"

Morarji Desai, Politician

"I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form"

Morarji Desai, Politician

"You do get some weirdos, but if there are any nice people out there who want to write to me pleasantly, then they'll get a pleasant reply back!"

Katie Price, Model

"How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart"

Robert Mondavi, Businessman

"I hope in my lifetime we can all continue to laugh at ourselves and not put down anyone for what they weigh"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'Dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'My 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody?"

Richard Simmons, Celebrity

"Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world"

Morarji Desai, Politician

"They meant abnormal. 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

"Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions"

Kiana Tom, Model

"I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged"

Major Owens, Politician

"Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion"

Major Owens, Politician

"It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity"

Lyman Abbott, Author

"It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

"All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right"

Joseph Jackson, Businessman

"If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"Towns and cities throughout the United States have opened their hearts and homes to thousands of families displaced from their homes as a result of this horrific storm"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina"

Jo Bonner, Politician

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