Unkind Quotes

• He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

  Dante Alighieri

  Kindness, Waiting, Needs

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• Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Inspirational, Stay Strong, Kindness

  Cory Booker @CoryBooker, twitter.com. May 17, 2015.

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• If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Jealousy, Often Is, People

  Cheryl Strayed (2015). “Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anger, Suffering, Trying

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.55, Penguin

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Winter, Blow

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. ‘Accentuate the positive.’ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Strong, Heart, Love Life

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Kindness, Hate

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

  William Shakespeare

  May, Defeat, Desdemona

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 4, sc. 2, l. 159

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• I do not like to be unkind.

  David Rockefeller

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

  Mao Zedong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• There was one thing my daddy wouldn't tolerate in any shape, form or fashion, and that was being unkind or rude to somebody. That was just very important to my folks. And as it turns out, that was a legacy that he left me that money can't buy, is how to be able to treat people.

  Paula Deen

  Fashion, Daddy, People

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• Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Enjoy Life, Storm, Sunlight

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.117, Harmony

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• Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Hope, New Year

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.88, Oxford University Press, USA

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• My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

  Johnny Cash

  Dad, Father, Men

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

  Felix Adler

  Peaceful, Mind, Criticism

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• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

  William Shakespeare

  Faith, Memorable, Denmark In Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 100

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Hurt, Angel, Twenties

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Unkind people need your kindness the most. They advertise their pain.

  Rick Warren

  Pain, Kindness, People

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 01, 2012

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• In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

  William Shakespeare

  Mind, Unkindness

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 4, l. [403]

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• Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Communication, Humor, Intelligent

  "Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography". Book by Wilfrid Meynell, 1903.

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• Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Suffering, Fruit, Language

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• There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

  Hosea Ballou

  Kindness, Needs, Said

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• As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

  Hosea Ballou

  Law, Honor, Remedy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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