Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself"

J. Irwin Miller, Businessman

"I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing"

George Woodcock, Writer

"I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything"

David Arquette, Actor

"She has no imagination and that means no compassion"

Michael Foot, Politician

"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor"

Letitia Landon, Poet

"Trying to give back a little bit is important"

Mark Goddard, Actor

"We stand ready to work together, where possible, in helping rebuild not only homes and businesses, but most importantly, lives of those who so desperately need our help"

Marc Morial, Politician

"The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies"

Francis Wright, Activist

"I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"I answer a fan with a hearing heart first"

Kent McCord, Actor

"I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other"

Little Richard, Musician

"I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community"

Sigourney Weaver, Actress

"I believe in people, especially suffering people"

Pat Buckley, Clergyman

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun"

Kent Nerburn, Author

"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives, but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?"

Ian Thorpe, Athlete

"Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls!"

Melody Beattie, Writer

"As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely"

Theodore Dreiser, Novelist

"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful, and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good"

Maria Menounos, Actress

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand"

Henri Nouwen, Clergyman

"I think that a man should be caring"

Little Richard, Musician

"Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure"

Frances Burney, Writer

"We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could"

James Cromwell, Actor

"Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place"

Rosalynn Carter, First Lady

"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity"

Nathaniel Branden, Psychologist

"I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others"

Philip Levine, Poet

"To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily"

Juliette G. Low

"The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"Kindness is always fashionable"

Amelia E. Barr, Writer

"I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage"

George Combe, Educator

"It doesn't do any good to argue. Be kind"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn"

Peter Thomson, Athlete

"That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency"

Mary McAleese, Statesman

"Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question"

Russell Simmons, Businessman

"Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men"

David O. McKay, Clergyman

"This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit"

Harry Belafonte, Musician

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