Quotes About Kindness

You give to get. Whether it's helping someone or training a kid, I believe you will be rewarded in some way.

I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I'm more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it's the most important thing. If you're kind, you'll go a long way.

Haiti, if you've ever met a Haitian person, they are just really positive, and literally, if you're friends with them, then they will do anything for you. So I think that's something that is, like, a really good trait, and I'm really happy that my grandparents and my dad's side of the family is like that.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.

I believe in doing what I want to as long as I do not trample over someone else's happiness.

I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.

I don't believe that directors need to essentially manipulate actors into doing things. You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you. I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.

When people treat you well, you just want to transfer it back over.

I don't really get mad. But if I see a helpless animal being treated cruelly I will transform into the Incredible Hulk.

I wanted to write about the transformative power of small acts of kindness. An old man falls in the street, you stop and make sure he's OK. Or even smaller acts than that, though - buying someone a cup of coffee, telling them their hair looks nice - sometimes you don't realise the transformative effect on people. I wanted to celebrate that.

I feel like I was transformed by the kindness of people who had every reason to show me cruelty and the transformative power of their decision to treat me like a human being, that was so huge, that anytime somebody wants me to talk about that I feel like I absolutely want to do that.

My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.'

It's such a transition and it's so empowering to become a mom, but there are also many challenges. Just remind yourself, every minute, every day, to be kind to yourself.

I translate Hawaii as a place where people make sure I'm having a great time, eating terrific food, without any expectation of anything in return. It's a place for people to be happy. It sounds corny, but in Hawaii, it's not; it's uncorny.

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

Girls who worry are not only some of the smartest kids I meet, they're also some of the kindest. The most thoughtful. The most compliant.

There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Donate to the extent that even if you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy

Not even let your left hand know when your right hand is donating

Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.