Kindness Quotes

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Scott Adams

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

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Hebrews 13:2

Be kind to unkind people - they need it most!
Ashleigh Brilliant

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck

As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
Buddha

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens

Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.
Wayne Dyer

The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proven in research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact, the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the production of serotonin chemically, helping to ease depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this! Kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved!
Wayne Dyer

When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind.
Wayne Dyer

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.
Betty Eadie

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick W. Faber

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.
Carla Gordon

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
Audrey Hepburn

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Anne Herbert

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

Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.
Cheri Huber

Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal

If there is any kindness I can show, any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato

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

If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
Sophocles

The essence of love is kindness.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
C. Neil Strait

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa

Friends...they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David Thoreau

It is higher and nobler to be kind.
Mark Twain

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

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward

A kind soul is in constant bloom.
A.S. Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tenessee Williams

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.
William Wordsworth