Quotes About Kindness

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Paul had the biggest heart in the world and he was such a good example.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward.

If you go about life the right way and you're good to other people that will show and will payoff in the long run.

When you live with someone, it pays to buy them a gift that you would love to have around the house.

No one pays me to be nice.

My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.

I have never hurt anyone, and that pays back. I have always wanted good for everyone.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

I defy anybody to be of service to another human being and not have the most peaceful night of sleep you've had in a long, long time.

It is important for me to help others because I was also helped by others before I became part of the Black Eyed Peas.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

That's how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

People say they get a warmness from me.

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

I'm not the perfect person, but I have the perfect heart, I feel, when it comes to helping people.