Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Michael Moore

They may rail at this life - from the hour I began it, I've found it a life full of kindness and bliss; And until they can show me some happier planet. More social and bright, I'll content me with this.

Mencius

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

Mencius

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

Mencius

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Michael Josephson

You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Markus Zusak

Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

Mignon McLaughlin

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

John Wilmot

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

John Wooden

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

John Ruskin

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

John Ruskin

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

John Patrick Shanley

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

John Owen

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

John Milton

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

Norman Cousins

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Noel Gallagher

I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.

Misha Collins

I actually think that the most efficacious way of making a difference is to lead by example, and doing random acts of kindness is setting a very good example of how to behave in the world,

Misha Collins

Even small acts of kindness can make a profound difference to somebody else.

Mitch Albom

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

Mike Tyson

Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.

Mike Tyson

I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.

Miguel de Cervantes

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

Neil Finn

Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.

Terry Riley

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

Margaret Halsey

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Melissa Etheridge

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

Michelle Bachelet

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.