Quotes About Kindness

Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.

I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Make no judgements where you have no compassion.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Getting past my early 20s, I feel a bit more maturity and responsibility about that stuff. You get a good feeling from doing something good. You see a kid and you make his day, you realise the power of it. Whereas before, I was like, 'That's cool, whatever.' But now, that's what I'm most appreciative of.

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and maybe sickly sweetness; whereas I do think of kindness as a force, as a power.

I have one friend who I don't think has a mean bone in her body and I find that very bizarre. I can't imagine her ever flying off the handle, whereas I will.

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

I really care about leaving a trail of goodness wherever we can.

We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.'

I've been blessed so abundantly that I can never get over it. I just feel so richly blessed that I want to extend that to others wherever I can.

I believe that it is important, wherever possible, to lend a voice to help those in trying times.

When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don't know what kind of day they've had. You are going on holiday and they're stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like.

I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.

Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

I'm always trying to find something good in a person wherever I can.