Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Lancaster

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Karen Allen

Sometimes I think candor is the only kindness.

Karen Armstrong

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.

Katharine Hepburn

Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.

Josh Radnor

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Josh Radnor

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

John Keats

To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talents, - the tools to him that can handle them.

John Kenneth Galbraith

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Gayle Forman

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.

Lyndon B. Johnson

When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.

Ludwig Feuerbach

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History.

Louis de Bernieres

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.

Louis Auchincloss

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Maira Kalman

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Maimonides

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

Maimonides

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

Maimonides

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

Gail Carson Levine

I'm more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Freya Stark

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

Jules Renard

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

Juvenal

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

Kathryn Stockett

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.

Maggie Stiefvater

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Madame de Stael

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

Haruki Murakami

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

Haruki Murakami

At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo forever --- his strength, his intelligence, his kindness. He does not exist here, with me, but flesh that does not exist will never die, and promises unmade are never broken.

Haruki Murakami

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

Haruki Murakami

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

Han Suyin

And there is not anything in the world stronger than tenderness.

Grantland Rice

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.