Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!

Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.

I don't hate people.

As a society, we're failing to recognize something my dad knew to be true - that kindness is the greatest show of strength. Too often, we are led to believe that strength is best demonstrated by exerting dominance or superiority over others, while kindness is portrayed as the opposite - a sign of weakness.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

I dislike hatred, offence, unkindness.

It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

We are in this world to learn and embody compassion and love.

I am constantly nice to people. Sometimes they don't deserve it.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.