Famous Quotes & Sayings

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful.

Colin Farrell

I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Cleveland Amory

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

Dante Alighieri

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Dara Horn

Time itself is created through deeds of true kindness.

Danielle Panabaker

There is an element - particularly on social media - where I want to encourage positivity and kindness rather than negativity and bashing of other people. I think that is a way I try to incorporate social responsibility into my life, but I feel like my day to day is pretty average.

Dan Millman

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

Dan Millman

If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.

Cornel West

We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness.

Confucius

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Confucius

Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.

Confucius

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

Confucius

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

Confucius

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Confucius

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Confucius

There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity.

Dalia Mogahed

Remember this: For all the ugliness in the world there is far more beauty. For all the cruelty there is far more kindness. And remember one more thing: Those who remind you of this simple fact-keep them close

Darin Strauss

Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

Dave Matthews

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

David Levithan

The more kindness and justice are challenged, the more we must embrace them. Only when you are challenged - and only when you challenge yourself - do you discover what truly matters.

David Levithan

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

David Levithan

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I no longer think she's just being nice. She's being kind. Which is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

David Levithan

I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.

David Gerrold

I have a very simple philosophy of life: Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness. Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up. Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.

Debbie Macomber

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Andie MacDowell

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

Anna Sewell

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

Amy Tan

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Anthony Bourdain

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

He kind of set the tone for the way he wants his season to go. I don't know if he responded to me or to himself. But whatever it was, I got what I wanted from him.

He kind of set the tone for the way he wants his season to go,