Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty White

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Betty White

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Dawn Powell

I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.

David Walker

To me, the real marks of beauty in a woman are courage, character, kindness, and personality.

Carl Jung

What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved -- what then?

Plaxico Burress

We've got kind of one of those offenses where we respond when we need to. I just wish we could've responded a little earlier.

Bill Murray

I count on the kindness of strangers.

Bill Nighy

One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

Bertolt Brecht

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

Benjamin Jowett

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

Cat Deeley

I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.

C. S. Lewis

Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.

We're just not playing as well as we could right now. We're just kind of laying back and letting them take it to us.

William Shakespeare

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

William Moore

When I was a redshirt, I used to go to meetings and just kind of look at stuff because what they were teaching wasn't really important to me,

Diane Setterfield

In this cruel world kindness should always be repaid.

Dianna Agron

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

We started out a little tentative. We couldn't get into any kind of offensive rhythm.

William Shakespeare

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Louis C. K.

Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

Lord Byron

Adversity is the first path to truth.

William Shakespeare

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Edna O'Brien

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

Edgar Lee Masters

This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.

Edgar Guest

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Benjamin Franklin

Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason.

Benjamin Franklin

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Eric Hoffer

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Jane Austen

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

James Woods

Here's what I believe a soul is - at least this, I believe it's at least this. I believe that every kindness that we create in our lives, if it came because we were affected by a person we loved and lost, that person lives through that kindness. That's what a soul is.

Jason Bateman

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.