Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a surprise, it's kind of come out of nowhere.

Gertrude Stein

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

Glen Campbell

You've got to try a little kindness, yes show a little kindness Just shine your light for everyone to see. And if you try a little kindness, Then you'll overlook the blindness Of narrow-minded people on the narrow-minded streets.

Henry David Thoreau

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

Henry David Thoreau

True kindness is a pure divine affinity, Not founded upon human consanguinity. It is a spirit, not a blood relation, Superior to family and station.

Henry David Thoreau

We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Henry David Thoreau

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Jilly Cooper

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

Flannery O'Connor

Kindness and patience were always called for ...

Henri Bergson

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation -- to force the esteem of others -- seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.

Helen Keller

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.

Cat Stevens

Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the o­nly answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.

George Eliot

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

George Eliot

He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

James E. Faust

No matter what circumstances you sisters experience, your influence can be marvelously far-reaching. I believe some of you have a tendency to underestimate your profound capacity for blessing the lives of others. More often than not, it is not on the stage with some public pronouncement but in your example of righteousness and the countless gentle acts of love and kindness done so willingly, so often on a one-to-one basis.

Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay small acts of kindness and love.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Iris Apfel

Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.

Immanuel Kant

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Do you wish the world were happy? Then remember day by day, just to scatter seeds of kindness as you pass along the way. . . .

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.