Unkindness Quotes

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy. - Robert Louis Stevenson

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. - Seneca

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience. - Mother Teresa

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day. - Barbara Sher

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

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness. - George Eliot

If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. - Nelson DeMille

I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. - William Shakespeare

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness. - Mother Teresa Of Calcutta

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. - Patrick White