Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?"

Morley Safer, Journalist

"I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated"

John Shirley, Author

"I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now"

Jeffrey Bernard, Journalist

"We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now!"

Dave Davies, Musician

"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world"

Logan Pearsall Smith, Critic

"There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment, because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires"

Chuck Jones, Director

"While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"Before you speak, ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid"

Bernard Meltzer, Lawyer

"I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind"

Charles Bronson, Actor

"I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody"

Adam Arkin, Actor

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel"

King Solomon, Royalty

"Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure"

King Solomon, Royalty

"Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives"

Saint Teresa, Saint

"Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul"

Saint Teresa, Saint

"If somebody is suffering somewhere, I am suffering"

Angélique Kidjo, Musician

"When fear and hate are on the rise, it is our responsibility to respond with love"

Ilhan Omar, Congressman

"Make sure you keep your head up and stay positive. Most importantly, be kind to other people"

Zendaya, Actress

"Facts matter, but so does empathy, because people are rarely monsters in their own minds"

Alex Gibney, Director

"To put our own interests first, without caring about others, is the opposite of what we have built together"

Emmanuel Macron, President

"The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure they have enough"

A$AP Rocky, Musician

"The thing I learned the most is that if you approach people with openness and without judgment, they will open their lives to you"

Chloé Zhao, Director

"I have always found goodness in the people that I met everywhere I went in the world"

Chloé Zhao, Director

"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham"

Anna Sewell, Writer

"I'm not interested in provoking people, but only in trying to be consoling"

Martin Kippenberger, Artist

"It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man"

Pierre Laval, Politician

"Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain"

Hugh Prather, Writer

"The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly"

Haniel Long, Author

"I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person"

Billy Preston, Musician

"I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"After convincing myself that was, maybe, you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life"

Rick Danko, Musician

"I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain"

John Hall

"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country"

Tim Robbins, Actor

"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more"

John Bunyan, Clergyman

"Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective"

Marguerite Moreau, Actress

"The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction"

Maria Menounos, Actress

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