Kind Quotes

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

He who injures living beings is not noble. He is called noble because he is gentle and kind towards all living beings.

If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.

We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.