kindness quotes

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Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Kevin Hart

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The Hindus are some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet.

Joel Osteen

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Joel Osteen

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Robert Kiyosaki

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Compliment three people every day.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

Lady Gaga

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Joel Osteen

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

Joyce Meyer

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Maya Angelou

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Pope Francis

I’m doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

Lady Gaga

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

George Eliot

If you give, you will be blessed.

Joel Osteen

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Maya Angelou

Some people are jerks, and some people aren’t.

Kevin Hart

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Benjamin Disraeli

The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.

Lady Gaga

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

William Shakespeare

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

Dolly Parton

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Joel Osteen

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Joyce Meyer

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Muhammad Ali

If you are not being bullied all I would say – cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well – is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there’s someone in your class that maybe doesn’t have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

Lady Gaga

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Christopher Hitchens

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

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

Taylor Swift

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

William Shakespeare

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Joel Osteen

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

William Shakespeare

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Maya Angelou

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Maya Angelou

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I have a big gay and lesbian following and they’ve been very loyal and kind to me.

Dolly Parton

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Joyce Meyer

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

My mother always wanted to give back.

Lady Gaga

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Barack Obama

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

Barack Obama

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Wayne Dyer

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

Joyce Meyer

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

Muhammad Ali

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

H. L. Mencken

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Pope Francis

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Joel Osteen

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Muhammad Ali

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Mr. T

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Baden-Powell

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

Joel Osteen

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Jackie Chan