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Quotes About Kindness

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
~ Millicent Fenwick
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.
~ Nelson Mandela
There's not enough good things in the world.
~ Noel Gallagher
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.
~ Paulo Coelho
Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.
~ Rajneesh
Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!
~ Steven Tyler
FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.
~ Susane Colasanti
I am who I am, and I think I have a good nature, by and large. But if someone takes advantage of that good nature, well then, you know, I'm not that nice a guy.
~ Tom Hanks
On a day when you're tired, it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.
~ Lindsay Lohan
Even a smile is a good deed.
~ Shari Arison
Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.
~ David LaChapelle
I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.
~ Tinie Tempah
We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.
~ Michael Franti
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
~ Alice Duer Miller
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.
~ Catharine Beecher
It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.
~ Kate Reardon
A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The memory of a good deed lives.
~ Aesop
Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
~ Alice Hegan Rice
I know that there is absolutely good in the world.
~ Amanda Schull
[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.
~ Amy Dickinson
I have always believed in trying to be a good person and giving to the world, and treating others in a just, kind, merciful way.
~ Andrew Solomon
If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.
~ Ann Druyan