Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

"Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days"

James Brown, Musician

"Treat everyone the way you would want to be treated... This can be applied to any situation"

Dante Hall, Athlete

"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

"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving"

John Lithgow, Actor

"The only true source of politeness is consideration"

William Gilmore Simms, Novelist

"There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others"

Charles William Eliot, Educator

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives"

Bishop Robert South, Theologian

"We are a country that prides itself on power and wealth, yet there are millions of children who go hungry every day. It is our responsibility, not only as a nation, but also as individuals, to get involved. So, next time you pass someone on the street who is in need, remember how lucky you are, and don't turn away"

Lesley Boone, Actress

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

Ian Anderson, Musician

"When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why"

Dinah Maria Mulock, Novelist

"Compassion is not a popular virtue"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors"

Howard Koch, Screenwriter

"A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares"

Debi Mazar, Actress

"A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face"

Jimmy Sangster, Screenwriter

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"I just want to say, that if Jesus were alive, what would he be doing? Well, he would probably be accepting and loving people how they're made. And I always say this and it's really the truth. If being 4'11 was a sin, what would I do? Well, I could wear heels and I could add a wig"

Kristin Chenoweth, Actress

"He who gives while he lives: get to know where it goes"

Percy Ross, Businessman

"I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides"

Kyan Douglas, Celebrity

"I couldn't kill a fly"

Vera Miles, Actress

"There's a special place in heaven for caregivers"

Maureen Reagan, Celebrity

"I wish I had it in my power to furnish you with accommodation, I should feel proud to do it, shall be happy to hear from you at anytime, when you engagements will allow you an hour and remain with best wishes for yourself, family and circuit"

John Hawley

"We are treated with such generosity of spirit"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"People seldom refuse help if one offers it in the right way"

A. C. Benson, Author

"And if strangers come to supper, they shall be served with more according as they have need"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness"

Sophocles, Author

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune"

Sophocles, Author

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist"

Sophocles, Author

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things, but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy"

Mark Twain, Author

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up"

Mark Twain, Author

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love"

Lao Tzu, Author

"From caring comes courage"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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