Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvester Stallone

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

Let your kids observe you doing random acts of kindness, it can be contagious

Katy Perry

My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Besides, our action on each other, good as well as evil, is so incidental and at random, that we can seldom hear the acknowledgments of any person who would thank us for a benefit, without some shame and humiliation. We can rarely strike a direct stroke, but must be content with an oblique one; we seldom have the satisfaction of yielding a direct benefit, which is directly received.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

Sean William Scott

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone's so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

Lin Yutang

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Liam Neeson

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Thomas Aquinas

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.

Therese of Lisieux

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...

Tertullian

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Terry Pratchett

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

Terry Pratchett

Dedication: My thanks to the people who showed me that opera was stranger than I could imagine. I can best repay their kindness by not mentioning their names here.

Terry Goodkind

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

Tom Regan

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Simone Weil

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Simon Sinek

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

Stephen Fry

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Sri Chinmoy

Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.

Sri Chinmoy

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.

Ruta Sepetys

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

Rosie O'Donnell

I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.

Ron Kaufman

Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.

Thomas Jefferson

When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.

Thomas Jefferson

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

Robert Herjavec

I'm a very nice guy, but don't mistake my kindness for weakness.

Robert W. Service

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.

Rob Sheffield

...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness.