Top 500 Kind Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.”

— Candace Bushnell

402. “Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.”

— Frank Herbert

403. “I’m an armchair psychologist, I suppose, and I like to kind of sit around and guess and pretend I know what’s going on.”

— Tom Hardy

404. “Here’s kind of my motto – if you’re not happy at home, you’re not happy anywhere else.”

— Angie Harmon

405. “Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.”

— Victoria Moran

406. “If you like trekking, go to the Himalayas or Peru. I love those kinds of trips. But it all depends on your own life and what you like and what you expect.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

407. “One can’t be kind to one person and cruel to another.”

— Morarji Desai

408. “If you don’t feel comfortable playing a role, if you’re in a scenario that’s not conducive for that kind of environment, then that’s when you don’t do well.”

— Nina Dobrev

409. “We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.”

— Johannes Kepler

410. “The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.”

— Homer

411. “We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you’re headed for a breakthrough moment, it’s kind of scary because you say, ‘If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.’”

— Dane Cook

412. “Don’t beat yourself. That’s the worst kind of defeat you’ll ever suffer.”

— John Wooden

413. “You know, I don’t know if you know this about me or not, but I’m kind of a big deal.”

— Eminem

414. “I don’t think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.”

— Daniel Goleman

415. “Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, ‘What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?’”

— Louise Hay

416. “That’s kind of what trust is, isn’t it? A willful self-delusion.”

— Brandon Sanderson

417. “Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

418. “I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.”

— György Ligeti

419. “Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.”

— Deepak Chopra

420. “Honestly, if you’re given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don’t say ’what kind of tea?”

— Neil Gaiman

421. “I’m an escapist kind of writer.”

— Maeve Binchy

422. “Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one’s existence.”

— Eckhart Tolle

423. “A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.”

— John Cleese

424. “Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.”

— Patsy Kensit

425. “I’m never drawing the object itself; I’m only drawing a depiction of the object – a kind of crystallized symbol of it.”

— Roy Lichtenstein

426. “You kind of can’t help who you’ll fall in love with. I’d date someone who isn’t in the business in a heartbeat.”

— Selena Gómez

427. “What kind of beast would turn its life into words?”

— Adrienne Rich

428. “Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.”

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

429. “Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.”

— Billy Corgan

430. “There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.”

— Marion Barry

431. “I always wanted to be a performer, I didn’t know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.”

— Bette Midler

432. “I identified with Pip from ‘Great Expectations,’ especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.”

— David Nicholls

433. “There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.”

— Evan Esar

434. “Being sexy is kind of funny to me.”

— Reba McEntire

435. “One of the things was to create a kind of amnesty environment.”

— Michael Dell

436. “A funeral isn’t for the dead. You’ll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won’t even be there.”

— John Steinbeck

437. “There’s a sadness to all kinds of music if you want to hear it. There’s also happiness to it if you want to hear it.”

— B. B. King

438. “The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

— Emil Cioran

439. “I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader – that anybody could have.”

— Stan Lee

440. “It’s either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don’t know what it is, but whatever it is, I’ve got it.”

— Katharine Hepburn

441. “Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.”

— Frank Zappa

442. “A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.”

— John Steinbeck

443. “There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air.”

— Cecelia Ahern

444. “I’d much rather be the oddball out than kind of create something of myself that I’m not proud of.”

— Selena Gómez

445. “I don’t know how people do it these days – paparazzi and that kind of thing. That’s something I can’t even imagine.”

— Eddie Vedder

446. “You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.”

— Cassandra Clare

447. “A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.”

— Thomas Malthus

448. “I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.”

— Selma Blair

449. “You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.”

— Gore Vidal

450. “Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.”

— Hayao Miyazaki