Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.”

— Napoleon Hill

152. “Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

153. “Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

154. “I see Jesus in every human being. I say to myself, this is hungry Jesus, I must feed him. This is sick Jesus. This one has leprosy or gangrene; I must wash him and tend to him. I serve becuase I love Jesus.”

— Mother Teresa

155. “Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.”

— Arundhati Roy

156. “Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.”

— Judith Butler

157. “I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

— Alison Bechdel

158. “Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.”

— Daniel Handler

159. “I love trees I have this thing for trees and the colors & changing of leaves. I love it I respect these kinds of things.”

— Michael Jackson

160. “Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.”

— Samuel Beckett

161. “If you understand each other you will be kind to each other.”

— John Steinbeck

162. “The purse strings tie us to our kind.”

— Walter Bagehot

163. “Trips to the dentist – I like to postpone that kind of thing.”

— Johnny Depp

164. “Life is a kind of chess.”

— Benjamin Franklin

165. “No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.”

— Anne Rice

166. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”

— Harper Lee

167. “When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

168. “Being successful is kind of dull.”

— Nolan Bushnell

169. “I didn’t set out to write certain kinds of songs – I just set out to write good songs.”

— Madonna

170. “The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, “No I’m happy for you”? Thats when it’s really sad...”

— John Mayer

171. “You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.”

— Emmet Fox

172. “Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

173. “The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.”

— Drew Barrymore

174. “This is why I can’t be with Levi. Because I’m the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can’t even read.”

— Rainbow Rowell

175. “When I listen to old music, that’s one of the few times that I actually have a kind of love for humanity.”

— Robert Crumb

176. “I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future, so I want to be reasonably sure of what kind of future it’s going to be. That is my reason for planning.”

— Charles F. Kettering

177. “Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

178. “Want to be one of a kind? Be yourself.”

— Hayley Williams

179. “Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

180. “But of course there are all kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talked about in the great outside world of winning and achieving and displaying.”

— David Foster Wallace

181. “A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

182. “It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.”

— Joseph Campbell

183. “That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.”

— Guru Nanak

184. “I have incredible stamina- the what-do-I-got-that-they-ain’t-got kind of stamina.”

— Oprah Winfrey

185. “I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

— Anne Sexton

186. “I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God’s.”

— Byron Katie

187. “I have to kind of like switch heads. Sometimes I manage it seamlessly, and other times I feel rather all over the place. I feel a bit schizophrenic, like I have a split personality.”

— Emma Watson

188. “The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.”

— John Quincy Adams

189. “I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.”

— Michelangelo

190. “Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.”

— Charlotte Brontë

191. “There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

192. “If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

193. “Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.”

— Leo Tolstoy

194. “My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.”

— Lily Tomlin

195. “When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

— Lewis Carroll

196. “I’m a Pisces, so I’m a very closed-book kind of person.”

— Erykah Badu

197. “Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

198. “Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality.”

— Jean Baudrillard

199. “When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

— Haruki Murakami

200. “I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.”

— Orson Welles