180 Kindness Quotes to Inspire You To Always Be Kind

“Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house…kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.”- Mother Teresa

“There is always a way, to be honest without being brutal.”- Arthur Dobrin

“Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back – when there are some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.”- Sharon Stone

“I don’t care if you’re black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you’re nice to me, I’ll be nice to you.”- Robert Michaels

“It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.”- Elizabeth Taylor

“Learn to be kind to make friends. Learn to be interested to keep your friends. Learn to be independent to remain a friend.”- Maxime Lagacé

“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

“As the rain falls on the just and unjust alike, let your heart be untroubled by judgments and let your kindness rain down on all.”- Buddha

“Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.”-Richard Dawson

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”- Wendy Mass

“The shortest distance between two people is a smile.”- Victor Borge

“He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”- St. Basil

“Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.”- Sam Altman

“Always set a high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.”- Samuel Johnson

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.”- James M. Barrie

“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”- Mother Teresa

“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”- Aristotle

“If a man is gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.”- Francis Bacon

“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

“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”- Dennis Prager

“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”- Kahlil Gibran

“It is good to be helpful and kind, but don’t give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.”- George Eliot

“One thing I do know for a fact is that the nicer we are to our fellow human beings, the nicer the universe is to us.”- Joe Rogan

“My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others.”- Steven Seagal

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”- Kahlil Gibran

“The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.”- John E. Southard

“Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.”- Roy T. Bennett

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.”- Amit Ray

“One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”… whatever you’re feeling.”- Steve Maraboli

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”- Roy T. Bennett

“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”- Roy T. Bennett

“The best way to show you care is to be present. The best way to help someone is to listen to it. The best way to be is to be kind.”- Maxime Lagacé

“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

“There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.”- Bob Anderson

“Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.”- Ellen DeGeneres

“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”- Whoopi Goldberg

“Kindness is caring for others, even when they may not care for you.”

“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

“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”- George Sand

“Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be first in love. I want you to be first in moral excellence. I want you to be first in generosity.”- Martin Luther King Jr

“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”- William Wordsworth

“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.”- Alexander Pope

“Smile. Give. Help. Care. Listen. Love. If you’re generous, you’re making the world a better place.”- Maxime Lagacé

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.”- Kahlil Gibran

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

“A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.”- Og Mandino

“Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.”- Tacitus

“Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.”- Talmud

“A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.”- Roy T. Bennett

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”- Frank A. Clark

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

“Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.”- Pope Francis

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”- Sally Koch

“Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.”- Albert Brooks

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”- Kahlil Gibran

“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

“Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”- Rumi

“A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship; he who plants kindness gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally, gratitude begets reward.”- Saint Basil

“Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!”- William Arthur Ward

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism because we are born selfish.”- Richard Dawkins

“It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”- Kahlil Gibran

“He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.”- Dante Alighieri

“We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”- Howard Zinn

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”- Brian Tracy

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.”- Kahlil Gibran

“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

“Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”- Josh Billings

“Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”- George Washington

“Making others happy, through the kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.”- Paramahansa Yogananda

“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”- Honore De Balzac

“Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.”- John Gerzema

“People just deserve to be treated with kindness.”- Sophia Bush

“To be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.”- Queen Rania of Jordan

“The only true source of politeness is a consideration.”- William Gilmore Simms

“Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.”- Bryant H. McGill

“Good manners are the technique of expressing considerations for the feelings of others.”- Alice Miller

“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”- Madame de Stael

“True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.”- Alexander Pope

“What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?”- Aeschylus

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people like things.”- Terry Pratchett

“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.”- Jean de la Bruyere

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”- Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you have self-respect, you can show respect. If you have inner peace, you can promote peace. If you have inner love, you can show love.”- Maxime Lagacé

“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”- Oliver Goldsmith

“Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.”- Mary Wilson Little

“On Politeness: Easy to learn. Easy to practice.”- Marlene Dietrich

“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

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”- Kahlil Gibran

“But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There are incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.”- Dave Matthews

“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”- Leo Buscaglia

“I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don’t think it’s softness, I think it’s kindness.”- Len Goodman

“It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving-kindness as the strengths they are.”- Sharon Salzberg

“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”- R.J. Palacio

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”- Hubert H. Humphrey

“Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.”- Meir Kahane

“In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle – this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.”- Lao Tzu

“We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn’t weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.”- Jim Rohn

“Fools have big egos and small hearts. The wise small egos and big hearts. The wiser just love.”- Maxime Lagacé

“Sometimes people don’t trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won’t stand up for other people.”- Sharon Salzberg

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”- Dalai Lama

“It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.”- Emma Thompson

“What I call the depth of generosity is when people are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”- Oscar Wilde

“I don’t worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.”- Jason Bateman

“Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness.”- Dalai Lama

“People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that’s just the bottom line.”- Ruben Studdard

“Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.”

“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

“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”- Sophocles

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”- Osho

“Kindness is showing someone they matter.”

“Kill them with kindness, slay them with a smile.”- Caesar

“Only the powerful are gentle.”- Maxime Lagacé

“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.”- Confucius

“Kindness never goes out of style.”

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”- Anne Frank

“Kindness is wisdom.”- Philip James Bailey

“For it is in giving that we receive.”- Francis of Assisi

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”- James M. Barrie

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”- Joseph Joubert

“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”

“Kindness is love and love is kindness.”

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

“Kindness starts with one.”

“We rise by lifting others.”- Robert Ingersoll

“Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most.”

“Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way.”- Max Irons

“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”- Confucius

“Kindness is love made visible…”- M. Swanepoel

“Be kind to the living.”- James McBride

“Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.”- Lord Chesterfield

“Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.”- Niccolò Machiavelli

“An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.”- Saadi

“Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.”- Amit Ray

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

“No one is born hating another person…People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”- Nelson Mandela

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”- Samuel Johnson

“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.”- Buddha

“There are many goals but one path – the path of compassion.”- Amit Ray

“It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”- Lao Tzu

“What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.”- Cleveland Amory

“Strong people don’t put others down, they lift them up.”- Michael P. Watson

“An eye for an eye and the whole world would be blind.”- Kahlil Gibran

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”- Dalai Lama

“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.”- Albert Einstein

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde

“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”- William Shakespeare

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”- William Shakespeare

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”-Kahlil Gibran

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

“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”- Jackie Chan

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”- Dalai Lama

“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.”- Buddha

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

“Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”- Kahlil Gibran

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”- Marlene Dietrich

“Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.”- Oprah Winfrey

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”- Maya Angelou

“I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.”- Lady Gaga

“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

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

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”- William Makepeace Thackeray

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.”- Amelia Barr

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” – Plato

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

“Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.”- Charles Glassman

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!”- George Elliston

“Kindness is a vast color that only your heart knows how to paint.”

“One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness; usually it comes back to you.”

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

“Genuine kindness is no ordinary act, but a gift of rare beauty.”- Sylvia Rossetti

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”- Thomas Carlyle

“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”- Hada Bejar

“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.”- Pubilius Syrus

“Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.”- Kiana Tom

“One can’t be kind to one person and cruel to another.”- Morarji Desai

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”- Jesse Jackson

“Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.”- C. A. Bartol

“There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.”-Cicero

“A kind word is like a Spring day.”- Russian Proverb

“Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does. Mason Cooley

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”- Mary Oliver

“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.”- Don Van Vliet

“A dog has one aim in life… to bestow his heart.”- J.R. Ackerley

“Kind people are the best kind of people.”

“To belittle, you have to be little.”- Kahlil Gibran

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”- Phyllis Diller

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”-Andy Rooney

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”- Bill Gates

“They are always saying God loves us. If that’s love I’d rather have a bit of kindness.”- Graham Greene

“We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I’ve always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.”- Dave Matthews

“Kindness does wonderful things to a face.”- Dixie Doyle

“It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.”- Publilius Syrus

“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.”- Benjamin Jowett

“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”- George Eliot

“People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.”- Kenny Rogers

“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.”- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It’s a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.”- Ovid

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.”- Francis of Assisi

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”- Samuel Johnson

“Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.”- Frank Herbert

“Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?”- Jeff Bezos

“Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”- Mencius

“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

“Praise by name, criticize by category.”- Warren Buffett

“It’s wise to be kind. It’s wiser to be kind and truthful.”- Maxime Lagacé

“He who fears to weep should learn to be kind to those who weep.”- Ahmad Shah Masood

“There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

“Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”- Desmond Tutu

“Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it’s akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.”- Josh Radnor

“The serenity of mind, gentleness, silence, self-restraint, and the purity of mind are called the austerity of thought.”- Bhagavad Gita

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”- Euripides

“In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do – not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.” Rowan D. Williams

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

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

“Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.”- Mother Teresa

“There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”- William James

“Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love…Kindness is goodwill. Kindness says, ‘I want you to be happy’.”- Randolph Ray

“As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartedness.”- Alice Walker

“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”- D. H. Lawrence

“Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.”- Rembrandt

“Wise people are kind to others. Wiser people are kind to others and themselves.”- Maxime Lagacé

“And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.”- Martin Scorsese

“I’m always impressed by confidence, kindness and a sense of humor.”- Tamara Mellon

“I used to say I wanted somebody funny and intelligent, but kindness is the most important quality in a man.”- Cat Deeley

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

“A little madness a little kindness makes for happiness.”- Nicole Johnson

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”- Henry Van Dyke

“The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.”- Maya Angelou

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

“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

“No one has yet 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

“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.”- Adam Lindsay Gordon

“True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.”- Bo Bennett

“A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.”- Chinese Proverb

“I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.”- Rosie O’Donnell

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.”- Mother Teresa

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”- Kahlil Gibran

“Today will never come again. Be a blessing. Be a friend. Encourage someone. Take time to care. Let your words heal, and not wound.”

“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.”- Louis Pasteur

“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.”- Frank A. Clark

“You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.”- Brian Eno

“The simple act of caring is heroic.”- Edward Albert

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first, we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?”- Jane Nelson

“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest.”- Francis Bacon

“If you want a real education, learn to be tolerant. If you want a real impact, learn to be loving.”- Maxime Lagacé

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.”- Booker T. Washington

“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”- Pablo Casals

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”- Henry David Thoreau

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”- Dr. Seuss

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”- Margaret Mead

“Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”- Aesop

“In my opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.”- Roger Ascham

“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.”- Carrie Fisher

“We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.”- George A. Smith

“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”- Matthew 5:44

“I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.”- Edgar Ramirez

“Tenderness is the greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.”- Marlene Dietrich

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”- Mark 12:31

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”- Jack Kerouac

“He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.”- Ahmad Shah Masood

“I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving-kindness and compassion.”- Ron Reagan

“If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.”- Abu Bakr

“The Bible calls us to love our neighbors and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.”- Adam Hamilton

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”- Kahlil Gibran

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”- Theodore Isaac Rubin

“If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”- J.M. Coetzee

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”- C. S. Lewis

“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

“A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.”- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.”- Thomas Fuller

“There’s no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.”- Charles Kingsley

“Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for, with sharing and love, one learns.”- Marc Estrin

“He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”- Benjamin Franklin

“There are many times when it is better to be kind than clever.”- Thibaut

“When you are young you take the kindness people to show you as your right.”- W. Somerset Maugham

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”- Theodore Rubin

“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”- George Dennison Prentice

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty, but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.”- Joseph Addison

“Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits.”- Kirpal Singh

“Be as successful as you want, but if you’re unkind, you’re not successful.”- Maxime Lagacé

“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”- William John Bennett

“We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.”- Roy T. Bennett

“Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.”- Dalai Lama

“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”- Sophocles

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”- Robert Green Ingersoll

If everyone in this world would try to be more kind, life would be a lot easier and beautiful.

“Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.”- Robert Brault

“An egoist lives in poverty. A kind person lives in abundance.”- Maxime Lagacé

“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”- Henry David Thoreau

“Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.”- Pope Francis

“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.”-Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Being is kind is giving even when it seems like you have nothing to give.”

“We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”-Ronald Reagan

“Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness, always.”- Rod Williams

“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

“Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.”- Sam Altman

“It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”- Eric Hoffer

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”- Saint Francis de Sales

“A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.”- John Ruskin

“Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.”- Frank A. Clar

“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.”- Tommy Lee Jones

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”- Samuel Johnson

“Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like.”

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

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”- Wayne W. Dyer

“To be kind to others you must first be kind to yourself.”

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”- Mark Twain

“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”- Amit Ray

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”- Marilyn Monroe

“Accept yourself totally and you’ll change your life.”

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”- Jack Kornfield

“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”- Ayn Rand

“We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We’re also all the kindnesses we did.”- Hugh Leonard

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”- Elizabeth Gilbert

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”- Joseph Campbell

“The moment that we realize our attention has wandered is the magic moment of the practice because that’s the moment we have the chance to be really different. Instead of judging ourselves, and berating ourselves, and condemning ourselves, we can be gentle with ourselves.”- Sharon Salzberg

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”- Louise L. Hay

“We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.”- Malcolm X

“Loving yourself is healing the world.”- Jaymie Gerard

“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”- Rita Mae Brown

“The most important thing in your world in your health. Without it, you have nothing. Be kind to yourself.”- Maxime Lagacé

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”- Michel de Montaigne

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”- Sharon Salzberg

“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”- Francis of Assisi

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.”- Glenn Beck

“What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.”- C. JoyBell C.

“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.”- Walter Savage Landor

“There’s no such things as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”- Scott Adams

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” – Harold S. Kushner

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

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”- Paramahansa Yogananda

“The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.”- George MacDonald

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

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

“When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.”- Saint Francis de Sales

“It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn’t matter. Because I think it’s pretty much the only thing that matters.”- Josh Radnor

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

“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”- John Wesley

“The most beautiful family is based on respect. The most beautiful relationship is based on love. The most beautiful world is based on kindness.”- Maxime Lagacé

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.”- George Dennison Prentice

“I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”- Liam Neeson

“Kindness goes a long way lots of times when it ought to stay at home.”- Kin Hubbard

“The wonderful thing is that it’s so incredibly easy to be kind.”- Ingrid Newkirk

“So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.”- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”- William Shakespeare

“It may take a little self-discipline, be simple, be kind, stay rested.”- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“It doesn’t do any good to argue. Be kind.”- Richard G. Scott

“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”- Robert Green Ingersoll

“Genuine kindness is no ordinary act, but a gift of rare beauty.”- Sylvia Rossetti

“Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.”- William Menninger

“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.”- Evelyn Underhill

“Be kind to people and tough with their ideas.”- The Stoic Emperor

“Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”- Rabbi Tarfon

“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours.”- Kurt Vonnegut

“Splendor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjuna.”- Bhagavad Gita

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”- Benjamin Franklin

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”- Gerald Jampolsky

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”- Suzanne Somers

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”- John Green

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”- Reinhold Niebuhr

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”- Bryant H. McGill

“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.”- Ellen Goodman

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”- Billy Graham

“Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.”- Jessica Lange

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”- Kahlil Gibran

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”- Josh Billings

“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.”- Desmond Tutu

“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.”- Victor Hugo

“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”- Augustine of Hippo

“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.”- George MacDonald

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”- Corrie Ten Boom

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.”- Norman Cousins

“If you can’t forgive, you’re not honest with yourself. If you can’t empathize, you’re not loving yourself.”- Maxime Lagacé

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”- Indira Gandhi

“I’m dangerously generous.”- Mika

“Love is the absence of judgment.”- Dalai Lama

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”- Dalai Lama

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”- Dalai Lama

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”- Dalai Lama

“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.”- Dalai Lama

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”- Dalai Lama

“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”- Dalai Lama

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back, and reasons to stay.”- Dalai Lama

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”- Dalai Lama

“Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”- Samuel Johnson

“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

“Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.”- Alphonse Karr

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.”- Dalai Lama

“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.”- Richard Gere

“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 Kushner

“I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.”- Brigitte Bardot

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”- Joseph Joubert

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

“There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.”- Harriet Ann Jacobs

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”- Victor Hugo

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”- Kahlil Gibran

“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

“Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference – in our own lives and those of others.”- Sharon Salzberg

“Love and kindness go hand in hand.”- Marian Keyes

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”- Jane Austen

“My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that’s kind of where it begins and ends.”- Jennifer Carpenter

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”- Roy T. Bennett

“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”- Charles Kuralt

“Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.”- Bo Lozoff

“Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.”- Steve Maraboli

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

“For my father, being kind was natural… I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest – not words you usually associate with kindness.”- David Copperfield

“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Being clever is overrated. Being kind is underrated. Talking is overrated. Listening is underrated.”- Maxime Lagacé

“If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.”- Roma Downey

“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

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”- Annie Lennox

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

“I think true success is intrinsic… It’s love. It’s kindness. It’s a community.”- Tom Shadyac

“Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.”- Thomas Fuller

“If the earth does grow inhospitable toward human presence, it is primarily because we have lost our sense of courtesy toward the earth and its inhabitants.”- Thomas Berry

“The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.”- Anita Roddick