Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"I go now before the milk of human kindness goes sour for me"

Philip Francis, Politician

"I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need"

Carl Karcher, Businessman

"No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad"

Omar Sharif, Actor

"Most people are nice and just want to have a chat"

Ben Nicholas, Actor

"When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well"

Randy Neugebauer, Politician

"We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists"

Josephine Hart, Writer

"I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them"

Mary Ann Mobley, Actress

"You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel"

Claudia Christian, Actress

"We feel that what's too far is when you make a joke and somebody gets hurt"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody"

Lawrence G. Lovasik, Clergyman

"My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms"

Lauren Bush, Model

"What's wrong with sweetness and light? It's been around quite awhile"

Richard Rodgers, Composer

"Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?"

Chris LeDoux, Musician

"All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go"

Charles Cotton, Poet

"I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Put good energy out. Get good energy back"

Lawrence Tierney, Actor

"Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"Give and ye shall receive"

Bram Cohen, Scientist

"Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking"

Bainbridge Colby, Public Servant

"But people who really know me know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear"

A. J. McLean, Musician

"I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world"

A. J. McLean, Musician

"For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher"

Alexander Dubcek, Politician

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize"

Elizabeth Harrison, Educator

"People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid"

Jim Thome, Athlete

"When you are older, you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment"

Craig T. Nelson, Actor

"Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness"

Anne Seward, Poet

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey"

Sarah Fielding, Writer

"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture, but of the basic way people behaved towards one another"

Harry Mathews, Author

"I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well"

Rene Rivkin, Businessman

"The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other"

Mark Hopkins, Educator

"When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart"

Donna Reed, Actress

"Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves, and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family"

Dave Heineman, Politician

"Always try to do something for the other fellow, and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you"

Claude M. Bristol, Writer

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