Best 299 quotes in «be kind quotes» category

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!

I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

I can be very snobby about fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I can be kind of overly demanding, I think. But this is, I think, a good time. A lot of fiction comes out right now. So, I like reading the memoir. I love memoir, the biography, auto bio.

I felt like I needed to get a few side projects out of my system before I settled in to do the new record. Usually what's asked of you, everything's a year cycle. When you get caught up in that cycle, it can be kind of brutal, actually. It was good I got to take a year off, with no pressure coming from anywhere.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

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.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.

If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?

If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.

I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

I'm easy going for the most part but sometimes in the morning if I didn't sleep well I can be kind of grumpy. But my grumpiness doesn't have that much to do with my dissatisfaction with my station in life.

I hope that's what I've taught my girls - to be fair, to recognize their own position and their own good fortune, to use their voices to make things better. Beyond that, I'd tell them just to be kind.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?

I'm just a dude and I feel like being completely isolated would be kind of a drag. I really do get a lot of energy from feedback from fans. People create music videos and artwork for my music.

I'm not a stranger to depression and desperation. I can be kind of tortured but I do like to have a lot of fun.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.

I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

In terms of favourite movies then, I like Lion King. Something more recent would be Alice in Wonderland; it'd be kind of cool to have The White Queen appear in Kingdom Hearts.

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

I think I have an obligation to be kind to people in general, otherwise I'll feel crappy about myself.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire twenties with some success as a comedy writer but not much as a performer. And you have to be kind of informed and naive at the same time.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

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

It's all really very simple. You don't have to choose between being kind to yourself and others. It's one and the same.

It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being cruel. Because it makes us feel big, or whatever.

It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda

It's harder to be kind than clever

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit for going in that direction. It’s the only natural direction to go in. Why is it that some people don’t see that as so patently obvious as it should be?

It’s cool to be kind. It’s cool to be weird. It’s cool to be honest and to be secure with yourself.

It's so important to just be kind to one another because we aren't walking in that other person's shoes.

It's okay to be kind of looking for what you want and trying out all kinds of different ideas and different course work, etc.

I wanted it to be kind of dreamy and 1920s, when everything is soft-focus.

It's weird when people ask me, "Why are you so nice?" It's like, "Because that's just what you should do. You should be kind to people." It seems really basic, but it's amazing how many people forget that.