Empathy and kindness are the greatest strengths a leader can possess.

Kindness costs nothing, but its impact can be priceless.

Sometimes it takes a year of following ancient rules to remind yourself of the importance of modern values like kindness and forgiveness.

A forced kindness deserves no thanks

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, – these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, – these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Suspenseful movies are one of my favorite kinds of stuff. It compels you to think about what happened next.

Life is short, and we have but little time to gladden the hearts of those who travel the dark way with us. Be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

I feel that the diary should never be the dreary kind of chronicle of any person’s movement or actions that they might have done in their life

I always find that the very perception of beauty is always a kind of strange power.

Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth

I’m more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Compassion is a verb

Feelings come and go clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor

Reason and Knowledge have always played a secondary, subordinate, auxiliary role in the life of peoples, and this will always be the case. A people is shaped and driven forward by an entirely different kind of force, one which commands and coerces them and the origin of which is obscure and inexplicable despite the reality of its presence.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That’s the kind of world I live in

The world needs more empathy and understanding. Choose kindness over judgement.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

It is the patient workers, and the active, kindly sympathetic men and women who hold the balance of things secure.

They cry, “But I want to be a writer!” And my head hangs. You are asking to be shot square in the head. You know not what you seek. You ask for bleeding brains and carnage that stains your pillowcase. You ask for jelly in the place of the cartilage in your spine. You ask for kindness that is never returned. You wish to burn alive in the flame of a love unrequited. It’s simple. Write.

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily, even if you had no title or position.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They’re getting left behind.

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

To love thy neighbor as yourself is a true mark of generosity and kindness.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves–from our recklessness or our greed.

Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations, or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know ‘That is life’!

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it also helps us to develop inner happiness and peace.

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it also helps us to develop inner happiness and peace.

Life’s as kind as you let it be.

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

That’s home. That’s us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness—that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved. What then?

Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interests upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance

You don’t gotta kiss a, but you gotta be consistent.

There’s more, much more, to Christmas than candlelight and cheer. It’s the spirit of sweet friendship that brightens all year. It’s thoughtfulness and kindness. It’s hope reborn again, for peace, for understanding, and for goodwill to men

Be a person and respect others as persons.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception.

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.

Unlike the gold which needed nothing, and must be worshipped in close-locked solitude—which was hidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the song of birds, and started to no human tones—Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements; making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness in all eyes that looked on her.

A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

If you propose to speak always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

There must be some kind of way out of here,’ said the joker to the thief

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

I kind of woke up and realized that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are

And suddenly I realized that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn’t have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any kind of an outside negative force coming in to deflect you.

The energy we put out in the world is the energy we get back. So if you want more love in your life, set your intention to be more loving. If you seek kindness, focus your energy on empathy and compassion. Conversely, if you wonder why there are so many angry people in your life, look no further than the resentment you hold in your own heart.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them – there’s only us.

The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.

If you’re a writer, particularly if you’re a writer or a storyteller of any kind, there is something already kind of monstrously wrong with you.

How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something—even if it is only kindness

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

Money has a certain kind of amnesty

I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, and choosing the right thing.

I don’t hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I’m at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind

The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you.

How can we change the world? One random act of kindness.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

A kindness is never wasted

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

The more we share our stories— through words or pictures, music or drama— the kinder our world will be.

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.

Britney’s a real class act in terms of the way she handles herself in the media and embraces new artists. She’s always really kind, I’ve always admired that about her.

I believe that the best type of kindness is the one that inspires kindness.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

It was a good weekend for the team, valtteri drove an incredible race today so he deserved it.

Kindness is a free currency from a well that will never dry up.