To Be Kind Quotes

It is higher and nobler to be kind.
- Mark Twain

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.
- Charles Adams

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.
- Aeschylus

I used to be kind of bitter and jealous as well, but I get it. It's business.
- Carlos Alazraqui

I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.
- Jodi Picoult

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.
- Cassandra Clare

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
- Abu Bakr

Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
- Annie Barrows

I kept trying to explain and he kept shouting until I began to cry from frustration. Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
- Mary Ann Shaffer

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
- Mary Ann Shaffer

The thing i call 'my mind' seems to be kind of like a landlord that doesn't really know its tenants.
- Lynda Barry

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.
- Glenn Beck

I must be cruel only to be kind
- William Shakespeare

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
- Dorthea Brande

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
- Robert Brault

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
- Dalai Lama

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.
- Richard Carlson

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.
- Oswald Chambers

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
- J M Coetzee

I actually thought you would be kind," said the vampire.
"Go away!" screamed Devnee.
He did not answer.
"I didn't have to be kind," Devnee told him. "Victoria was kind for me."
He laughed.
"No one can be kind for you, my dear," said the vampire. "But I don't mind, of course. I have you now. There's no escape, my dear. You and I, Devnee Fountain, are a team.
- Caroline B Cooney

I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
- Marie Curie

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.
Brian Sibley: Or brains even?
Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.
If you're kind that's it.
- Roald Dahl

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
- Clarence Darrow

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies--: God damn it, you've got to be kind.
- Kurt Vonnegut

There's only one rule that I know of, babiesGod damn it, you've got to be kind.
- Kurt Vonnegut

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.
- Judi Dench

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.
- Wayne Dyer

When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
- Wayne Dyer

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
- Henry James

he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street- lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.'
- Genie Francis

Do we have any chlorine? It seems to be kind of explosive when mixed with other stuff."
"Like what, your socks? No, we don't have chlorine. No swimming pool.
- James Patterson

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.
But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.
- Stephen Fry

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

But she was not even grateful to him for it; nothing good on Pierre's part seemed to her to be an effort, it seemed so natural for him to be kind to everyone that there was no merit in his kindness.
- Leo Tolstoy

The best solution is to be kind and good while ignoring the opinions of others.
- Leo Tolstoy

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
- Lena Horne

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
- Aldous Huxley

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us humans.
- Masashi Kishimoto

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.
- Tobias Wolff

It's better to be kind than to be right.
- Anne Lamott

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He has said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all to be kind to each other.
- Thomas Paine

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.
- David O Mckay

But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but, Shirley, the best revenge was to turn your life into a small gathering of miracles.
If I could not be anchored and profound, I would try, at least, to be kind.
- Lorrie Moore

The girl was lighter without her heart. She danced barefoot on the hot roads, and her feet were not cut by the glass or stones that studded her way. She spoke to the dead whenever they visited her. She tried to be kind, but they realised that they no longer had anything in common with her, and she realised it, too. So they went their separate ways.
- Helen Oyeyemi

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
- Carol Plum Ucci

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.
- Deanna Raybourn

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
- Jay Roach

There are three ways to ultimate success:
The first way is to be kind.
The second way is to be kind.
The third way is to be kind.
- Fred Rogers

Again, I shall be told that the law presumes the husband to be kind, affectionate, and ready to provide for and protect his wife. But what right, I ask, has the law to presume at all on the subject?
- Ernestine Rose

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
- Rumi

Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
- Garry Shandling

What a strange,old-fashioned thing to think. Bless you. But what other way was there of saying that you wanted only good for somebody, that you wanted the world to be kind to her, to cherish her?Only old-fashioned words would do for that.
- Alexander Mccall Smith

The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.
- Beatrice Sparks

We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person...so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.
- Natsuki Takaya

It is only human to be kind to others.
- Omoruyi Uwuigiaren

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
- Sid Vicious

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.
- Mary Webb