Quotes About Kindness

Be quick to forgive (Matt. 18:21–35).

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.

If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy... people who don't have no food... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.

I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

I don't waste time despising people.

If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.'

Compassion does not just happen. Pity does, but compassion is not pity. It's not a feeling. Compassion is a viewpoint, a way of life, a perspective, a habit that becomes a discipline - and more than anything else, compassion is a choice we make that love is more important than comfort or convenience.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.

In a relationship you want to treat people the way you want to be treated.

I make mistakes daily, letting generalizations creep into my thoughts and negatively affect my behavior. These mistakes have taught me that the first step to successfully choosing kindness is being more mindful about it, letting go of impatience and intolerance along the way.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It's so important to have manners and treat people from all walks of life the way they should be treated.

I sometimes take leftover food from craft services and give away a bunch of sandwiches on my way home.

I learned a lot from observing Wayne at the Rogers Cup. He was offered a cart across the grounds, but he wouldn't take it; he walked and stopped and signed autographs for people, and I thought that was amazing.

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

I believe that God has blessed me in immeasurable ways so that I can, in return, bless and help others.