Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

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"You've got to give more than you take"

Christopher Reeve, Actor

Christopher Reeve

"It's unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder"

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson

"So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting"

Marlene Dietrich, Actress

"For it is in giving that we receive"

Francis of Assisi, Saint

Francis of Assisi

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"In the time we have, it is surely our duty to do all the good we can, to all the people we can, in all the ways we can"

William Barclay, Theologian

"Do you want to fast this Lent? Fast from hurting words and say kind words. Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude"

Pope Francis, Pope

Pope Francis

"I have said, and I will say again: kindness is not a weakness"

Anthony Albanese, President

Anthony Albanese

"For the will and not the gift makes the giver"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice"

Henry Taylor, Dramatist

"There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just: be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else's life forever"

Margaret Cho, Comedian

"I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it"

Mac Davis, Musician

"If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?"

Oskar Schindler, Businessman

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better"

Marlo Thomas, Actress

"I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said, there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any"

Maurice Ashley, Celebrity

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are"

Ian Anderson, Musician

"I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us"

Brian Behlendorf, Scientist

Brian Behlendorf

"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Thaw, with her gentle persuasion, is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well"

Jennifer Aniston, Actress

"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

Friedrich Schiller

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

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