Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Marianne Williamson

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Mark Twain

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

I have sped by land and sea, and mingled with much people, but never yet could find a spot unsunned by human kindness.

Marquis de Sade

There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

Mark Millar

I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

Mark Epstein

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Mario Teguh

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

Mario Testino

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

Noam Chomsky

What Wikileaks exposed is kind of superficial in a way.

Nicole Krauss

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

Mother Teresa

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

Mother Teresa

Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your eyes, kindness in your face, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greetings. We are all but His instruments who do our little bit and pass by. I believe that the way in which an act of kindness is done is as important as the action itself.

Mother Teresa

One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.

Mother Teresa

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

Mother Teresa

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

Mother Teresa

Speak tenderly; let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.

Pearl S. Buck

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

Pearl S. Buck

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

Peace Pilgrim

Intellectually I touched God many times as truth and emotionally I touched God as love. I touched God as goodness. I touched God as kindness. It came to me that God is a creative force, a motivating power, an over-all intelligence, an ever-present, all pervading spirit - which binds everything in the universe together and gives life to everything. That brought God close. I could not be where God is not. You are within God. God is within you.

John Wesley

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

John Templeton

Kindness comes back like a boomerang to those who are kind. Perhaps, its return takes years. Perhaps, the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost.

John Steinbeck

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

John Steinbeck

It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary

John Steinbeck

There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had. John Steinbeck in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters

John Podhoretz

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

Nick Carter

I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.

Nancy Horan

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.