Quotes on Kindness
“Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of ‘religion’, whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.”
― John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, Belief, Friendship, Kindness
“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”
Victor Hugo, Kindness, Justice
“The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
William Blake, Kindness
“That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.”
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, Life, Love, Kindness
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.”
Amelia Earhart, Kindness
“Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love."
Morgan Freeman, Kindness, Happiness, Love
“How do we change the world? One Random Act of Kindness at a time.
Morgan Freeman, Kindness
“Your graciousness is what carries you. It isn’t how old you are, how young you are, how beautiful you are, or how short your skirt is. What it is, is what comes out of your heart. If you are gracious, you have won the game.”
Stevie Nicks, Kindness
“Truth, virtue, and courage are not necessarily enough, but they are our best bet.”
Jordan Peterson, Truth, Kindness, Courage
“If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution ― and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.”
Jane Goodall, Kindness, Love
“Of course, a great deal of our onslaught on Mother Nature is not really lack of intelligence but a lack of compassion for future generations and the health of the planet: sheer selfish greed for short-term benefits to increase the wealth and power of individuals, corporations and governments. The rest is due to thoughtlessness, lack of education, and poverty. In other words, there seems to be a disconnect between our clever brain and our compassionate heart. True wisdom requires both thinking with our head and understanding with our heart.”
- From The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness, Nature, Society, Business, Government
“There seems to be a disconnect between our clever brain and our compassionate heart.”
- From The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times
Jane Goodall, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness
“To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.”Jane Goodall, Nature, Kindness
“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
Anne Frank, Goals, Justice, Kindness
“Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”
Anne Frank, Kindness, Love, Wealth
“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
Helen Keller, Kindness, Happiness
"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Kindness
"If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."
Warren Buffet, Society, Kindness
"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give, I give myself."
Walt Whitman, Kindness
"Love the earth and sun and animals. Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks. Stand up for the stupid and crazy. Devote your income and labor to others. And your flesh shall be a great poem."
Walt Whitman, Nature, Wealth, Kindness
"I think being nice is more important than being clever."
Ricky Gervais, Kindness, Intelligence/Wisdom
"You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway."
Ricky Gervais, Belief, Kindness
"I think everybody should be nice to everybody."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Kindness
"I touch people. I think everyone needs that. Placing a hand on a friend’s face means making contact."
Princess Diana, Kindness, Friendship
"HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it."
Princess Diana, Kindness
"Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
Princess Diana, Kindness
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
Princess Diana, Kindness
"If i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?"
Henry David Thoreau, Kindness
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
Taylor Swift, Life, Kindness
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
George Orwell, Society, Kindness
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
Eleanor Roosevelt, Kindness, Anger and Fighting
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special."
Nelson Mandela, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness
"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution."
Nelson Mandela, Kindness
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
Seneca, Kindness, Strength
"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
Plato, Kindness
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
Plato, Kindness
"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."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kindness, Freedom, Society
"If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Kindness
"Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy."
George Washington, Kindness
"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone."
George Washington, Kindness
"Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself keeps you feeling young."
Betty White, Kindness
"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
Ronald Reagan, Kindness
"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."
Ronald Reagan, Kindness
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
Teddy Roosevelt, Kindness
"There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
Teddy Roosevelt, Kindness
"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
Audrey Hepburn, Kindness
"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
Audrey Hepburn, Kindness
"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'."
Audrey Hepburn, Kindness
"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."
Socrates, Kindness
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Socrates, Kindness
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
Mark Twain, Life, Kindness
"Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."
Winnie the Pooh, Kindness
"To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own."
Abraham Lincoln, Kindness
"I would rather be a little nobody, than to be a evil somebody."
Abraham Lincoln, Kindness
"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."
Abraham Lincoln, Kindness
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
Gandhi, Kindness, Belief
"If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn't matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored. Dying...or busy with other assignments. Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life. There as well: "To do what needs doing." Look inward. Don't let the true nature of anything elude you. Before long, all existing things will be transformed, to rise like smoke (assuming all things become one), or be dispersed in fragments...to move from one unselfish act to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness...when jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep going back to it."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"Receive without conceit, release without struggle."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
Marcus Aurelius, Life, Kindness
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
Marcus Aurelius, Time, Kindness
"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood and birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are unnatural."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness, Truth
"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius, Kindness
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill, Kindness
"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."
Bertrand Russell, Happiness, Kindness
"Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain."
Aesop, Kindness
"Give assistance, not advice, in a crisis."
Aesop, Kindness
"Once a wolf, always a wolf."
Aesop, Kindness
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
Aesop, Kindness
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
Voltaire, Kindness
"Perfect is the enemy of good."
Voltaire, Kindness
"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Voltaire, Kindness
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire, Kindness
"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
Voltaire, Kindness
"roses are red, violets are blue. a clown killed a boy, and ate him up too."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"My name is Jimmy, but my friends just call me the hideous penguin boy."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark."
Tim Burton, Kindness
"Don't expect people to reciprocate your kindness so you won't be disappointed."
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"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
Oscar Wilde, Kindness
"The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Kindness
"Where I lack words I shall supply with deeds."
Michelangelo, Kindness
"They say that those who do good to the good make them better, and to the bad, make them worse."
Michelangelo, Kindness
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Karl Marx, Kindness
"Evil people like people with limitless kindness."
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"Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do."
Henry Ford, Kindness
"I don't have pet peeves. I have major psychotic f**king hatreds."
George Carlin, Kindness
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."
Benjamin Franklin, Kindness
"To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it."
Benjamin Franklin, Kindness
"When you’re good to others, you’re best to yourself."
Benjamin Franklin, Kindness
"It is better to take many Injuries than to give one."
Benjamin Franklin, Kindness
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
Confucius, Kindness
"Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men."
Confucius, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness, Courage
"Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life."
Confucius, Intelligence/Wisdom, Kindness
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
Confucius, Kindness
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
Confucius, Kindness
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Confucius, Kindness
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
Confucius, Friendship, Kindness
"When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points."
Confucius, Kindness
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."
Confucius, Kindness
"Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude."
Confucius, Kindness
"Respond to anger with virtue. Deal with difficulties while they are still easy. Handle the great while it is still small."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness, Problems
"If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness."
Lao Tzu, Anger and Fighting, Kindness
"Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness."