Manners make the world work. They’re not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it’s chaos.
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
I was really young when I started on ‘One Tree Hill,’ and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial in my development as an actress. I’m also continuously surprised and humbled by the kindness and generosity of the fans.
Kindness boggles my mind. It’s the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Your health shouldn’t rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.
I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.
The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues – probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for the down-trodden, the sanctity of domestic life – even as his novels exposed the violence, hypocrisy, greed, and cruelty of the Victorian age.
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan’s index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness.
I’m honest and fair, but I don’t dispense false kindness.
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
One of the toughest things for leaders to master is kindness. Kindness shares credit and offers enthusiastic praise for others’ work. It’s a balancing act between being genuinely kind and not looking weak.
Even though some heartless North Korean, Korean-Chinese, and Chinese citizens have exploited vulnerable defectors for money, I witnessed many acts of kindness by the Chinese.
Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
I wish I was harder; I wish I didn’t care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more ‘oomph’ in me.
We live in a world that has very sharp edges. It can be very bitter and if you come across a little bit of random kindness – someone who is nice to someone – then that is always lovely.
It’s great for people to give out of the kindness of their hearts, but because we’re in a consumerist society, it’s also great to have the opportunity to give and get.
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do – not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.
My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that’s kind of where it begins and ends. I’m open to being surprised.
With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.
I used to say that if something happened to my mother, I wanted to die with her. That’s because I loved her so much. I want to live so I can carry out the essence of what she has shown me: kindness and goodness.
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.
We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.
When everything else is looking so grim and the world is changing so fast that it’s scary, one thing that remains consistent is kindness.
It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to make the world a better place get together.
There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
Being able to provide kindness to people putting their lives at risk in hospitals and supporting Philadelphia families in dire need of help is an important responsibility for me.
To say that past managements of Citigroup were poor would be a kindness.
Harshness and unkindness are relative. The appearance of them may be the fruits of the greatest kindness.
The catch phrase for the day is ‘Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.’
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.
As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together – and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will we then decide that death may well be an act of kindness?
Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.
I discover that my friends think only of my apparel, and those upon whom I have conferred acts of kindness prefer to remind me of my errors.
The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I’ve been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn’t work out. Timing plays a big part.
My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.
I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural.
There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don’t worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.
I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I’m more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it’s the most important thing. If you’re kind, you’ll go a long way.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that’s just the bottom line.
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
I look for kindness, honestly, integrity, intelligence, humor and good values, and of course, a fun, loving guy! And yes, I believe he exists!
The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that’s where they stay.
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.
I have faith in the Almighty and believe in his kindness.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there’s a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools – but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.
