Jennifer Garner Quotes

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

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

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.

People don't usually compliment your character.

I'm very empathetic - that might be one of my superpowers.

I'm a kind person.

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

To be compassionate is not a joke. It's not that simple. One has to discover a certain bigness in oneself. That bigness should be centered on oneself, not in terms of money, not in terms of power you wield, not in terms of any status that you can command in the society, but it should be centered on oneself.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

The feeling of being accepted and acknowledgement and recognition and fame - I'm vain like everybody else. The feeling of achievement that I've helped the poor or somebody in need far outweighs the money.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

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

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?