Quotes About Kindness

The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

The hardest thing to do when people are hurting you is to remain a decent person.

The biggest and the most important thing my mother told me is to be a good actor you first need to be a really good human being and an honest person.

I think living with humility, and serving with humility, is one of the most important things humans can do.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

The most important thing for me, when somebody asks me what I class as being a success, is being a decent human being.

Nice doesn't mean 'naive.' Nice doesn't mean 'gullible.' In my job, one of the most important things to be is decisive and firm.

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.

The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.

In the U.S., I've had the opportunity to grow up around a lot of Arab families, and the one thing that always stood out to me is the incredible hospitality; it's out of this world.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.

I believe in God. I believe in doing the right thing. I believe in helping people if I can.

The thing, in general, about being a good person is just do the right thing as often as possible.

Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It's not that I do it because it's the right thing: I do it because I want do it.

For example, when my mother died, the people who showed up just to put an apron on to cook, people who really do the right thing, so to speak, as my momma would always say to show that they care, a sense of community that we've lost so much in our country.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.