Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Safran Foer

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

Jonathan Safran Foer

It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

Napoleon Hill

No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.

Norman Mailer

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

Oscar Arias

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

Oscar de la Renta

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Orison Swett Marden

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

Omar Khayyam

To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.

Oliver Sacks

It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

Octavia Butler

Kindness eases change Love quiets fear

Mason Cooley

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

Mason Cooley

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

Mason Cooley

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Michael Moore

They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it, I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss; And until they can show me some happier planet. More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

Mencius

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

Mencius

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Mencius

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Michael Josephson

You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Markus Zusak

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I was proud to call Dr Rupert a friend. He was always a wonderful source of support and kindness.

Mallory Ortberg

Acting politely in front of someone black and/or gay and then making horrible claims about their intelligence or worth as human beings after they leave the room is not kindness - it's hypocrisy.

Mandy Moore

I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.

Malcolm X

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.

Johannes Kepler

[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

Jackson Pollock

He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

James M. Barrie

Always be kinder than necessary.

James M. Barrie

Always be a littler kinder than necessary.

James M. Barrie

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

Joe Rogan

Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow... We know that inherently that feels great.

Joan Didion

Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignation with oneself: no winning smiles will do here, no prettily drawn lists of good intentions. One shuffles flashily but in vain through one's marked cards- the kindness done for the wrong reason, the apparent triumph which involved no real effort, the seemingly heroic act into which one had been shamed.