Top 100 Be Kinder Quotes
#1. If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
Dalai Lama
#2. My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.
Sue Monk Kidd
#3. As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.
Frederick Lenz
#4. You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
Lena Horne
#6. An echo from the past when, innocent
We looked upon the present with delight
And doubted not the future would be kinder
And never knew the loneliness of night.
Noel Coward
#9. When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.
Melonie Diaz
#10. Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
Helen McCloy
#11. Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.
Robert D. Hales
#12. I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.
Teri Hatcher
#13. Wouldn't it be better if we could be kinder, but firmer?
Brene Brown
#14. Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.
Paul Kane
#15. If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
Dean Koontz
#16. Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
Oprah Winfrey
#17. Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth Bowen
#18. [I] educate people to be kinder to each other, and to other life-forms. There has been racism, sexism and now there is 'species-ism.' People think that they are better than other creatures.
Alicia Silverstone
#19. Your heart matters most, so be gentler and more patient with yourself, and their hearts matter most, too, so be kinder and more compassionate to others.
Stephanie Nielson
#20. I think I am a very kind person. I think I'm joyful, but I could be kinder and I could be more joyful. I do believe peace is a state of grace, and not the absence of violence.
Dave Matthews
#21. They tell me, shaking their heads:
"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".
I used to be kind. It didn't last long.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#22. I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.
Jorja Fox
#23. There's no wrong you can't make right again, so be kinder to yourself; you know, have fun, take chances. Those bounds.
Jewel
#24. Even children may intuit love's more complex responsibilities from time to time, and to sense that in some cases it may be kinder to remain quiet.
Stephen King
#25. As you would be kind to others, be kinder to yourself as well.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#26. I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
Yoko Ono
#27. Morgaine laughed and mocked, but when it was a real trouble, no one could be kinder.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#28. Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.
R.J. Palacio
#29. I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature ... our destiny can change.
Lynn Tilton
#30. Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
Erica Jong
#31. I believe that what we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it's the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves. For that reason, regret can be the birthplace of empathy.
Brene Brown
#32. Be kinder than necessary
because everyone you meet
is fighting some kind of battle
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#33. Because they know that people will be kinder to a child who smiles.
Francois Lelord
#34. Women tend to judge other women harshly. We should be kinder to each other, accept that we're all different and can make different choices. Not go for some kind of stereotypical idea that we're perfect. Frankly, I'm not perfect.
Cherie Blair
#35. Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.
Mika Waltari
#36. It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
Aldous Huxley
#37. It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#38. Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.
River Phoenix
#39. I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.
Roz Savage
#40. Don't you think we shall all be kinder to one another? I hope one's class will matter less and one's convictions more. I hope we might be more inclined to pardon one another for our errors with both.
Chris Cleave
#41. Children with cancer, as one surgeon noted, were typically "tucked in the farthest recesses of the hospital wards." They were on their deathbeds anyway, the pediatricians argued; wouldn't it be kinder and gentler, some insisted, to just "let them die in peace"?
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#42. Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
Pema Chodron
#43. In the future he would remember to be kinder to her clothing ... provided that she didn't look so damn good in them.
Jacquelyn Frank
#44. On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life's learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: Let us be kinder to one another.
Robin S. Sharma
#45. Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
Henry David Thoreau
#46. If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. One should be kinder than needed. What I love that line, that concept, is that it reminds me that we carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindess.
R.J. Palacio
#50. I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.
Sandra Cisneros
#51. Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless others-time to be kinder, more compassionate, quicker to thank and slower to scold, more generous in sharing, more gracious in caring.
Russell M. Nelson
#52. I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn't have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#53. It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley
#54. Shall we make a new rule of life ... Always try to be a little kinder than us necessary? ['The little white bird' by JM Barrie]
R.J. Palacio
#55. I am looking for the human who admits his flaws
Who shocks the adversary
By being kinder not stronger
What would that be like?
We don't even know
Naomi Shihab Nye
#56. Every time we choose courage we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little braver and a little kinder.
Brene Brown
#57. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others
even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. page 202
Jim Butcher
#58. Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Ethan Coen
#59. I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#60. The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.
Louis De Bernieres
#61. I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.
Richard Kinder
#62. Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There's a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there's also a cure.
George Saunders
#63. According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.
George Saunders
#64. Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.
Plato
#65. Jiu Jitsu gave me the opportunity to be a real human being. It opened my heart and my mind. I am kinder, more gentle and more loving due to my efforts in this art.
Chris Matakas
#66. People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
Aldous Huxley
#68. The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you're probably going to be a bigger undead jerk, If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you're probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire.
Molly Harper
#69. I'm not that nice," I said. People were always telling me how nice I was. You'd think it would be a compliment, but it was amazing how sometimes it just felt like a kinder way of saying "blah." "I just keep my horrible side well hidden.
Hester Browne
#70. Always try to be a little kinder than necessary.
R.J. Palacio
#71. Today, be a little bolder. Reach a little higher. Be a little kinder. Be a bigger dreamer." Robin Sharma
Robin S. Sharma
#72. I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.
Ryan Adams
#73. Still, I could have been kinder." She frowned, her eyes wandering. "Sibling relationships can be complex. I wonder, sometimes, if my own actions had some bearing upon the paths my brothers chose. Could I have been a better sister to them? Perhaps, as a young ymbryne, I was too focused on myself.
Ransom Riggs
#74. If people think we can draw a circle around North America and that we can be an independent island of energy, that's not realistic. This is a world market for oil, for refined products, and increasingly, for natural gas.
Richard Kinder
#75. Home. What kinder place could there be on earth, and why did it seem to them all like exile? Oh,
Marilynne Robinson
#76. Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
J.M. Barrie
#77. Other people labeled things impossible not because they couldn't be done, but because no one was doing them.
Gary Kinder
#78. Be a little kinder than you have to.
Never eat anything bigger than your ass
Do not accept an evil you can change
Always do what your afraid to do
E. Lockhart
#79. Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.
Brene Brown
#80. There is nothing about a Ph.D. that guarantees a person will be wiser, kinder, or more ethical than someone with only a high school education.
Dennis Prager
#81. Always be a little kinder than necessary.
J.M. Barrie
#82. Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them, he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.
Susanna Kearsley
#83. That day had changed him. It had changed the entire village. Shaken by the death of a boy they had loved, each person had found ways to be more worthy of the sacrifice he had made. They had become kinder, more careful, more attentive to one another.
Lois Lowry
#84. Be a little kinder than you have to." ========== We Were Liars (Lockhart, E.)
Anonymous
#85. there is no guarantee that an anonymity-free Internet would be a kinder, gentler Internet.
Whitney Phillips
#86. Just imagine you are dying tomorrow. Everyday. You will be much kinder to the world, there will be more love in you. That way.
Minhal Mehdi
#87. Always be a little kinder everyday....
Wonder
#88. We must be much more angry with theft than before, and yet much kinder to thieves than before. There
G.K. Chesterton
#89. If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the ones who are often closest to you. If you choose a path that you yourself want to take, then you're going to be much kinder to the people in your life.
Sarah McLachlan
#90. It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Ingrid Newkirk
#91. We look at babies and we see ourselves, only without all the baggage. We can look into a baby's face and somehow imagine that life will be different for them. That it will be better. Kinder. Free from pain.
Andrea Semple
#92. Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Edgar Guest
#93. When, upon the closed system of normal preoccupations, a story of a sea serpent appears, it is inhospitably treated. To us of the wider cordialities, it has recommendations for kinder reception. I think that we shall be noted in recognitions of good works for our bizarre charities.
Charles Fort
#94. Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.
Mooji
#96. Prayer can be an easy substitute for real spirituality. It would be impossible to have spirituality without prayer, of course, but it is certainly possible to pray without having a spirituality at all. How do you know? 'Am I becoming kinder?' is a good place to start.
Joan D. Chittister
#97. You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.
Frank Langella
#98. I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
Claire Cameron
#99. How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was.
Armistead Maupin
#100. Never to belittle love, no matter where it came from and to be a little humbler, nicer and kinder with my words and actions.
Preeti Shenoy
