Michael Caine Quotes

Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

It doesn't worry me what anyone says, except when publicity hurts others.

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

When you handle yourself, use your head; when you handle others, use your heart.

I've learned not to be such a show-off and to have a bit more empathy with humanity. Or at least to fake that.

You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.

Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.

In some way, people believe that if you are permeable, if you are a good listener, you don't have the quality of somebody with a firm attitude. This is what, fundamentally, I got from my mother.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

I'm only going to be the way I'd want someone to react to me.

My goal isn't to wake up in the morning and hurt people's feelings.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.