Mark Rutte Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

I've never been a mean person.

I pride myself on being kind.

Everyone responds to kindness.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

I'd like to think I'm actually a nice person in real life.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I wanna be a nice guy.

The wonderful thing is that it's so incredibly easy to be kind.

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

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

To be social is to be forgiving.

There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.