Quotes on Character and Kindness

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. - Abraham Lincoln

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. - William Arthur Ward

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. - Khalil Gibran

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain

Here are the values I stand for: honesty, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you

want to be treated. To me, those are traditional values. - Elen DeGeneres

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. - Dalai Lama

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn’t be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness, and humor. - Jennifer Aniston

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. - Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. -Joseph Joubert

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince – so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he’s no Prince Charming! - Anne Hathaway

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. - Anita Roddick

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good – and how he treats people who can’t fight back. - Abigail Van Buren (aka Dear Abby)

Respect is a two-way street; if you want it, you have to give it. - R.G Risch

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

- Scott Adams

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

People are like mirrors. If you show them an angry, insensitive, disrespectful person, that is what they will show you. If you want to see the good side of others, let them see the good in you first. – A. Adkins

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy

I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.

- Rachel Joy Scott (1981-1999)

Student, first victim of the Columbine High School shooting

Be the change you want to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

I like kindness. Who doesn’t? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people. - Ellen Greene

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. - Nathaniel Branden

In Asian languages, the word for ‘mind’ and the word for ‘heart’ are same. So if you’re not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you’re not really understanding it. -Jon Kabat-Zinn

Character is much easier kept that recovered. - Thomas Paine

You are responsible not only for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

- Martin Luther (1483-1546)

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

The world is a dangerous place; not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

- Albert Einstein

Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. - Zig Ziglar

“I must do something” always solves more than “something must be done”. - unknown

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required. - Joseph B. Wirthlin

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

- Albert Einstein