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“I am inspired by my mother's faith and the teaching I receive under the leadership of Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer. I am also inspired by hard work and powerful people who have maintained a sense of integrity, decency, and kindness. Love really inspires me.”

People Hard Mother Powerful Kindness Teaching Inspire Hard Work Integrity Inspired Decency Bishops Kenneth

Author:Erica Tazel

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

Life Needs Compassion Kindness Economy Prosperity Appreciation Decency Prosperous Kindness And Compassion Goodness And Kindness

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try to lead a life of decency, integrity, and kindness, which is much more challenging and noble, if not always quite as exciting.”

Ifs Giving Should Trying Challenges Kindness Successful Integrity Giving Up Should Have Exciting Noble Villain Decency Fingertips Villainy

Author:Daniel Handler

“The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything”

Feelings Moral Kindness Higher Conscience Consideration Milk Rats Decency Friendliness Scruples Rodents Compunction

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.”

Humans Understanding Compassion Kindness Taste Normal Ordinary Lacking Decency

Book:King Dork

Source: King Dork

“When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.”

World Humans War Suffering Justice Human Beings Poverty Kindness And Love Filled Greed Cruelty Generosity Indifference Decency Generosity And Kindness

Author:Mary Doria Russell

“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.”

Ifs World Needs Giving Persons Peace Deals Kindness Courage Listening Goodness Complicated Decency Be Courageous Goodness And Kindness Acts Of Courage Goodness In The World

Author:Pablo Casals

“We all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying—every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other.” - Acheron”

Source: Inferno: Chronicles of Nick

“No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion; it is an evil government.”

Ifs Humans Matter Government Evil Kindness Ill Noble Objectives Human Life Suspicion Wickedness Decency Blur Ill Will Evil Government

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.”

Littles Form Kindness Return Remains Decency Civility

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.”