Remind yourself of the beauty in spreading goodness and making the world a better place through a curated selection of kindness quotes.
Kindness stands as the universal language that transcends boundaries, cultures, and backgrounds; even the world brimming with diversity. It’s a force that radiates positivity, creating a ripple effect that touches lives far beyond our immediate actions.
In this journey of positivity, we delve into the wisdom and insight through a selection of kindness quotes. These quotes reminding us of the incredible impact that kindness can have on both the giver and the recipient.
Derived from various source, these quotes illuminate the path to a more empathetic and harmonious world. So, join us in exploring these kindness quotes that celebrate the beauty of compassion and selflessness.
Find the words that resonate within you, motivating you to spread the radiant glow to every corner of the globe. May these 100 kindness quotes provide insight to change your life in meaningful ways.
Inspirational quotes about kindness
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino
Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
Mother Teresa
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
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
Martin Luther King, Jr.
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Seneca
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
Mother Teresa
Be kindness quotes
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
Choose to be kind over being right and you’ll be right everytime.
Richard Carlson
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
It’s so easy to laugh,
It’s so easy to hate,
It takes guts to be gentle and kind.
Steven Morrissey
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.
Roy T. Bennett
I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all. Be kind and do good for any one and that will be reflected. The ripples of the kind heart are the highest blessings of the Universe.
Amit Ray
I’m going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.
Ellen DeGeneres
Be a little kinder than you have to.
E. Lockhart
It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor
Act of kindness quotes
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa
That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth
When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
Harold S. Kushner
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Khalil Gibran
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Roy T. Bennett
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
Amelia Earhart
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.
J.R.R. Tolkien
If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go–whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.
Roy T. Bennett
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
Morgan Freeman
Random acts of kindness quotes
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.
Roy T. Bennett
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.
Roy T. Bennett
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Jack Canfield
Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness–both the ones you have received and the ones you have given – you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.
Dawna Markova
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.
Steve Maraboli
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.
Joan Z. Borysenko
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
Alek Wek
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
Jackie Chan
Uplifting positive kindness quotes
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
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.
Mother Teresa
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Shannon L. Alder
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
Siddhārtha Gautama
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
Dalai Lama
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
– I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
– I shall fear only God.
– I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
– I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
– I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
Dale Carnegie
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
Roy T. Bennett
Spread kindness quotes
The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.
Sri Chinmoy
Perform a random act of kindness for someone: a smile, compliment, or a favor just for fun. These will multiply and spread very rapidly.
Steve Brunkhorst
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Susan Sarandon
I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop.
Dalai Lama
And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well.
Dalai Lama
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Brian Tracy
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
Goswami Kriyananda
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
Shannon L. Alder
Power of kindness quotes
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
Og Mandino
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
Lewis B. Smedes
People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self–confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.
Sanaya Roman
Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song which had lost its way and come to earth.
Frederick William Faber
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
Suzy Kassem
The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.
L. Ron Hubbard
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
Ann Patchett
Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is and having the courage to do it.
RAKtivitst
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins
Short kindness quotes
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
Your greatness is measured by your kindness.
William J. H. Boetcker
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Julia Alvarez
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.
Anne Frank
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca the Younger
Kindness quotes by famous people
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.
Roy T. Bennett
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J.K. Rowling
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.
Audrey Hepburn
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Roy T. Bennett
Quotes about kindness
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Mao Zedong
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
Emanuel Swedenborg
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Dr. Seuss
I have seen human beings do and become terrible things as they destroy the world. I have also learned that only those things made of kindness, justice, and hope can save the world.
Danté Stewart
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall
To extend yourself in kindness to anybody is an extension in kindness in the world.
Oprah Winfrey
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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
Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’ and then forgotten.
Malala Yousafzai
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer
Final thoughts
These kindness quotes encouraging us to extend a helping hand, offer a word of encouragement, or simply share a genuine smile. They reminding us that kindness is not merely a fleeting act, but a transformative force that echoes through time and space.
Let these kindness quotes linger in your thoughts, inspiring you to embrace kindness as a way of life. In doing so, we become vessels of positive change, leaving lasting imprints on hearts and minds.
As we go forth, let us carry with us the wisdom of these kindness quotes, nurturing a more empathetic in our interactions. Allow the quotes serve as reminders that even the smallest acts of compassion can change the world in profound ways.
We hope you’ve found inspiration and warmth in these kindness quotes. Share these quotes via your favorite media social, spreading the message of compassion, empathy, and positivity.
In the end, kindness is not just a sentiment; it’s a transformative action that has the power to heal, connect, and uplift. Let us choose kindness today and every day, and let contribute the world to shines brighter with every act of goodwill.