Kindness Quotes

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage, or bravery, or generosity, or anything else… Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.

Roald Dahl

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fibre of a free people.

Franklin D Roosevelt

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

Eric Hoffer

Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.

Alison Malee

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.

Wes Angelozzi

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

J M Barrie

A kind word is like a Spring day

Russian Proverb

Kindness is within our power even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.

Abraham Lincoln

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

Liz Armbruster

You can cultivate mercy when you extend acts of compassion and kindness to yourself and to other people.

Bree Miller

It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favour but to be ready to do kindness to others.

Aristotle

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.

Jackie Chan

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

Bob Kerrey

Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.

Andrew Iskander

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Sarah Fielding

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Confucius

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.

Buddha

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Albert Schweitzer

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

William Penn

If you can be anything, be kind.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

Albert Einstein

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.

Helen James

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

Henry James

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Harold Kushner

Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits.

Kirpal Singh

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Morgan Freeman

We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Charlie Chaplin

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Anne Frank

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

J M Barrie

Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.

Kevin Heath

Forget injuries; never forget kindness.

Confucius

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

Annie Lennox

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

William John Bennett

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

George Elliston

Life is mostly froth and bubble; two things stand like stone: kindness in another's trouble, courage in our own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon