Quotes About Kindness

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

When passion turns to paralysis, when our bodies stop listening to our brains, when a fatal disease sucks our insides out, will we then decide that death may well be an act of kindness?

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

No one should be left to suffer alone.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

Animals shouldn't suffer for the sake of beauty.

Children shouldn't have to suffer for any reason.

I never want to see anyone suffer for any reason.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

I suffered too much and I want to stop the suffering of other people.

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.