Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It takes strength to be gentle and kind.”

— Steven Morrissey

2. “When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.”

— Chester Bennington

3. “Mr. Market is kind of a drunken psycho. Some days he gets very enthused, some days he gets very depressed. And when he get really enthused you sell to him, and if he gets depressed, you buy from him. There’s no moral taint attached to that.”

— Warren Buffett

4. “Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.”

— Richard Branson

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5. “It’s better to be kind than to be right.”

— Anne Lamott

6. “The only kind of writing is rewriting.”

— Ernest Hemingway

7. “Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”

— Carl Sagan

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8. “You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”

— Brian Tracy

9. “Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love.”

— Rumi

10. “Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.”

— Bernard Meltzer

11. “Music directly represents the passions of the soul. If one listens to the wrong kind of music, he will become the wrong kind of person.”

— Aristotle

12. “Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.”

— Richard P. Feynman

13. “There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.”

— George Carlin

14. “The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.”

— Jim Rohn

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15. “God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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16. “We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.”

— Abdul Kalam

17. “But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”

— Rick Riordan

18. “Slow down, simplify and be kind.”

— Naomi Judd

19. “Innocence is a kind of insanity.”

— Graham Greene

20. “It is better to be kind than right.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

21. “I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.”

— Akira Kurosawa

22. “It’s like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music – good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.”

— Ray Charles

23. “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

24. “Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.”

— Christopher Hitchens

25. “A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.”

— Alexander Pope

26. “If you don’t fear, the Unknown will be KIND to you.”

— Paulo Coelho

27. “Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.”

— C. S. Lewis

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28. “In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

29. “It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.”

— Nathan Fillion

30. “There are three kinds of brains. The one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

31. “Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business.”

— Henry Ford

32. “No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.”

— Epictetus

33. “Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.”

— Auguste Comte

34. “All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

35. “Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.”

— Isaac Newton

36. “Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything.”

— Jack Kerouac

37. “Start making excuses and there’s no end to it. I can’t live that kind of life.”

— Haruki Murakami

38. “I’d rather be kind than right. You can always be kind.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

39. “Accepting help is its own kind of strength.”

— Kiera Cass

40. “Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

41. “Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?”

— Jack Kornfield

42. “There are two kinds of faith. There is the natural faith. But the supernatural faith is the gift of God.”

— Smith Wigglesworth

43. “Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love.”

— Charles Manson

44. “Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.”

— Ruby Dee

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45. “Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.”

— Daniel Boone

46. “The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.”

— Stephen Hawking

47. “We also have no incentive compensation of any kind. And the reason we don’t is because it is detrimental to teamwork.”

— Jeff Bezos

48. “It’s kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that’s the way to success.”

— Buddy Guy

49. “It takes all kinds to make a world go round.”

— Trent Shelton

50. “Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.”

— Omar Suleiman