Diogenes Quotes

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

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

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Do unto others, then run.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.