Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?”

— Mahatma Gandhi

352. “If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.”

— James Baldwin

353. “I’m always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I’m very protective of the people I love.”

— Dylan O'Brien

354. “At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.”

— Arthur Golden

355. “Theres different kinds of love, and Id never experienced that kind of totally platonic love. All the love Ive experienced has always been a kind of deal, and now, as I get older, I realise that theres this other love out there.”

— Tracey Emin

356. “In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.”

— Ovid

357. “I’m not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I’m kind of stuck now. I’m enjoying my life and I’m enjoying my work, and I’m enjoying the fact that the work I’m doing is garnering some interest and that’s great. I just hope that it continues.”

— Alfred Molina

358. “The best marriages, like the best lives, were both happy and unhappy. There was even a kind of necessary tension, a certain tautness between the partners that gave the marriage strength, like the tautness of a full sail. You went forward on it.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

359. “The only prosperity the people can afford to be satisfied with is the kind that lasts.”

— Henry Ford

360. “If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.”

— William Feather

361. “I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.”

— Dave Brubeck

362. “A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.”

— Frank Herbert

363. “Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.”

— Amy Tan

364. “I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.”

— Sidney Sheldon

365. “As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn’t go quite so far around it as others.”

— Bill Bryson

366. “It takes a different kind of thinking to solve a problem than the kind of thinking which produced the problem.”

— Albert Einstein

367. “I do believe in love; it’s wonderful – especially love third time around, it’s even more precious; it’s kind of amazing.”

— Robin Williams

368. “Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony.”

— Judith Butler

369. “Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.”

— Brian Tracy

370. “The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.”

— Albert Camus

371. “Actually I don’t know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.”

— Ani DiFranco

372. “It’s not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can’t imagine that they will ever be gone.”

— Henry Rollins

373. “I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

— Cormac McCarthy

374. “I hated myself for going, why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

375. “If you’re going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you’re going to have to keep secrets from yourself.”

— David Eddings

376. “I’m a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we’ve sold a lot of records, let’s sell some more.”

— Nat King Cole

377. “For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.”

— W. E. B. Du Bois

378. “I’m not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.”

— Orson Welles

379. “Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.”

— Albert Camus

380. “The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren’t being paid for it. It’s work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns.”

— Noam Chomsky

381. “The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.”

— Mortimer J. Adler

382. “It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.”

— Rick Bragg

383. “Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.”

— C. S. Lewis

384. “There is no word for our kind of friendship. Two people who don’t see each other a lot, but can make each other effortlessly happy.”

— David Levithan

385. “You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.”

— Margaret Drabble

386. “I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.”

— Lyndon B. Johnson

387. “I am very comfortable with conflict, be it of the legal or mortal kind. My father was a mediator, a bridge maker. I am a grave maker.”

— J.R. Ward

388. “Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.”

— Max Baucus

389. “Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.”

— Albert Einstein

390. “It’s kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn’t make the NHL.”

— Wayne Gretzky

391. “Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.”

— William Least Heat-Moon

392. “CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.”

— Ambrose Bierce

393. “I don’t act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”

— Buster Keaton

394. “There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

395. “The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.”

— Ryan Gosling

396. “I’m kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.”

— Erin Morgenstern

397. “A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.”

— Anish Kapoor

398. “My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.”

— Geraldine Ferraro

399. “It’s good when food tastes good, it’s kind of like proof you’re alive.”

— Haruki Murakami

400. “You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.”

— Seth Godin