Quotes About Kindness

You don't need the White House to please people. You can be 24, earning $22,000 a year, and have people over to your tiny apartment. It's all about sharing and thinking about what will make others happy.

The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.

Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

I try to pride myself on being nice to everyone and not letting egos get in the way.

I pride myself on being kind.

If people are offering help, it's because they want to and you have to let them do it. It just makes life so much easier. You just have to put your pride aside.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

My guiding principle has always been that we do better when we respect one another.

I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Making people feel good is the number one priority: I love that.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.

Just because I am private person doesn't mean I am not a good person.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

A good deed is not just a duty, but above all, a privilege.

People with problems are not problem people.

As a producer, I try to bring as many nice people as I can to insure that there's no screaming, there's no shouting, there's no bullying. The more of those kind of people that you can bring together, the better the experience everyone has on set.

Real movie producers aren't this nice.

Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.