Alice Walker Quotes

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

He who's never loved cannot be good.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

Pity enlarges the heart.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Meet hostility and suspicion with kindness. Helping others out of love is always the best option.