Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

202. “I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.”

— Edna O'Brien

203. “No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

204. “People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.”

— Vincent van Gogh

205. “Be dogmatically true, obstinately holy, immovably honest, desperately kind, fixedly upright.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

206. “God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.”

— Max Lucado

207. “The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.”

— Tony Robbins

208. “God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.”

— Meher Baba

209. “There is only one kind of freedom and that’s individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.”

— Ron Paul

210. “I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.”

— Leo Buscaglia

211. “The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?”

— Henry David Thoreau

212. “Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.”

— Charles Fillmore

213. “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”

— John Green

214. “Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”

— Albert Schweitzer

215. “I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.”

— Joel Osteen

216. “Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy.”

— Christopher Moore

217. “People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.”

— Lily Tomlin

218. “I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.”

— Katy Perry

219. “It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

— Khaled Hosseini

220. “I’m good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.”

— Enid Blyton

221. “That is God’s call to us – simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.”

— Thomas Merton

222. “Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.”

— Jean-François Lyotard

223. “For me, there are two kinds of women – goddesses and doormats.”

— Pablo Picasso

224. “Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking – being awake – consciousness.”

— Novalis

225. “I never feel I’m standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.”

— Paul Auster

226. “If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?”

— D.J. MacHale

227. “I work in a “you scratch my back, and I’ll stab yours” kind of a place.”

— Kevin Kelly

228. “It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”

— Stanley Milgram

229. “Even on the Serengeti, it ain’t a barbecue if there ain’t some kind of beer.”

— Anthony Bourdain

230. “What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”

— Haruki Murakami

231. “A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It is a matter of pointing out on what kinds of assumptions, what kinds of familiar, unchallenged, unconsidered modes of thought the practices that we accept rest.”

— Michel Foucault

232. “Each time of life has its own kind of love.”

— Leo Tolstoy

233. “What kind of dining set defines me as a person?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

234. “There is in the child a special kind of sensitivity which leads him to absorb everything about him, and it is this work of observing and absorbing that alone enables him to adapt himself to life.”

— Maria Montessori

235. “There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”

— H. R. Giger

236. “I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”

— Sigmund Freud

237. “The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such...”

— Sigmund Freud

238. “I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.”

— Antoine Lavoisier

239. “The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.”

— Albert Camus

240. “The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization – a kind of sublimation, therefore.”

— Sigmund Freud

241. “I’m kind of addicted to moving.”

— Heath Ledger

242. “She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.”

— John Green

243. “I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like.”

— George Michael

244. “There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.”

— Camilo Jose Cela

245. “The old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.”

— Wendell Berry

246. “Not every person has the same kinds of talents, so you discover what yours are and work with them.”

— Frank Gehry

247. “There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.”

— H. L. Mencken

248. “The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.”

— Dallas Willard

249. “Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.”

— Curtis Jackson

250. “What kind of society isn’t structured on greed?”

— Milton Friedman