Unkind Quotes:

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Disrespect, Incivility, Unkind

I do not like to be unkind.

- David Rockefeller

topic: Unkind

The world is unkind to the shoeless and frolicsome.

- Jedediah Berry

source: Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.30, Penguin

topic: World, Unkind

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Moments, Unkind

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: Moments, Unkind

The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

topic: World, Reputation, Unkind

It blows my mind that anyone could be unkind to anyone.

- Minka Kelly

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

topic: Blow, Mind, Unkind

When love is unkind, it is not love anymore.

- Neil Diamond

source: Song: Like You Do, Album: Tennessee Moon, 1996

topic: Love, Love Is, Unkind

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

- Rachel Johnson

topic: Cutting, Say Anything, Unkind

Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment, you must also be right.

- Robert L. Park

source: "Cancer doctor under fire for providing false hope to patients". www.foxnews.com. November 18, 2013.

topic: Enough, Establishment, Unkind, Alas

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Mind, Unkind, Unkindness

I get very heated about anything that is socially unkind.

- Alex Ebert

source: "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Unkind

Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.

- Edna O'Brien

topic: Kindness, All Kinds, Unkind

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

- David Attenborough

topic: Way, Aim, Unkind

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

- David Lynch

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

topic: Philadelphia, Said, Unkind

New York loves itself in an unkind and fanatical way.

- Mason Cooley

topic: New York, Way, Unkind

I certainly want to portray the importance of friendship. I had noticed in movies and TV shows that friends often treated one another terribly, and my friends, the few I have, are never cruel to me or unkind, so I wanted to convey that.

- Jonathan Ames

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Importance, Unkind

You must not be unkind, especially when it happens that you're right.

- William Saroyan

topic: Happens, Unkind

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

- Khalil Gibran

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

topic: Spiritual, Laughing, Unkind

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

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Kindness, Waiting, Needs, Unkind

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

- Ashleigh Brilliant

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

topic: Inspirational, Stay Strong, Kindness, Acts Of Kindness, Unkind Words

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

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

topic: Jealousy, Often Is, People, Unkind

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

topic: Anger, Suffering, Trying, Unkind, Retaliation

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Art, Winter, Blow, Winter Season, Winter Snow

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

topic: Strong, Heart, Love Life, Forward In Life, Accentuate

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

- Jesse Jackson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Respect, Indulge, Looking Down

...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

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

topic: Beautiful, Kindness, Hate, Geese, Lulls

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: May, Defeat, Desdemona, Unkindness, Unkind

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

- Mao Zedong

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Joy Of Giving, Kindness Generosity

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

topic: Fashion, Daddy, People, Deen, Unkind

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

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Enjoy Life, Storm, Sunlight, Accentuate, Unkind

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

- William Shakespeare

topic: Inspirational, Hope, New Year, Unkindness, Unkind

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

topic: Dad, Father, Men, Unkind Words, Unkind

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

topic: Peaceful, Mind, Criticism, Unkind, Seclusion

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Faith, Memorable, Christianity, Horatio, Denmark In Hamlet

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

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Live And Learn, Taken For Granted

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

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

topic: Hurt, Angel, Twenties, Unkind

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

- Rick Warren

source: FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 01, 2012

topic: Pain, Kindness, People, Kind People, Unkindness

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Communication, Humor, Intelligent, Amused, Unkind

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

- Jeremy Bentham

topic: Suffering, Fruit, Language, Unkindness, Unkind

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

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Kindness, Needs, Said, Unkindness, Unkind

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

- Hosea Ballou

topic: Law, Honor, Remedy, Unkindness, Unkind

Why are people so unkind?

- Kamahl

source: "Q&A with Kamahl: why is Hey Hey so unkind?". Interview with Melanie Mahony, www.crikey.com.au. October 9, 2009.

topic: Wisdom, Australia, People, Unkind

You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

- Gordon B. Hinckley

topic: Strong, Sorry, Eye, Forward In Life, Accentuate

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

- Enid Blyton

topic: Kindness, Punishment, Wish, Unkindness, Unkind

Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.

- Pythagoras

topic: Wise, Hate, Eye, Unkind, Hate And Fear

If you are harboring the slightest bitterness toward anyone, or any unkind thoughts of any sort whatever, you must get rid of them quickly. They are not hurting anyone but you. It isn't enough just to do right things and say right things - you must also think right things before your life can come into harmony.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.16, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Hurt, Thinking, Bitterness, Unkind

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

- Mignon McLaughlin

topic: Children, Parent, Remember, Unkind

I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for

- Al Capone

topic: Kindness, Bad Ass, Remember, Kind Person, Unkind

I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it. When you love God, and when you see God in every soul, you cannot be mean. If someone behaves hurtfully toward you, think of the best ways to behave lovingly toward him...

- Paramahansa Yogananda

topic: Hurt, Mean, Thinking, Unkind, Mortal Enemies

Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Beautiful, Kindness, Men, Morose, Unkind

It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

- Jo Brand

topic: Jobs, Careers, Stressed, Unkind

Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Pain, Moving, Past, Unkind

We've had a beautiful friendship, Diana. We've never marred it by one quarrel or coolness or unkind word; and I hope it will always be so. But things can't be quite the same after this. You'll have other interests. I'll just be on the outside.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.605, e-artnow

topic: Beautiful, Unkind Words, Diana, L'm Montgomery, Unkind

of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.

- Jerry Spinelli

topic: Hurt, Fall, Mirrors, Unkind Words, Unkind

Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Wish, Twenties, Finals, Unkind

THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Eye, Thinking, Voice, Unkind, These Eyes

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

- Cameron Dokey

topic: Faults, Kind, Sickness, Unkind

Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

- Judith McNaught

topic: Religious, Sunday, People, Judgmental People, Unkind

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

- Michelle Sagara

topic: Believe, Reality, Perfect, Unkind

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.13, Lulu.com

topic: Taken, Broken, World, Misanthropy, Unkind

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

- Byron Katie

topic: Done, Way, Opinion, Unkind

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

- Cameron Dokey

source: Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

topic: Kind, Blindness, Worst, Unkind