Kindness is one of those attributes that makes a person beautiful. People who are kind go out of their way to help others not because they have to, but because it’s the right thing to do.
Genuinely good people do random acts of kindness in silence, without expecting anything in return. When you think about becoming the best version of yourself, this type of behavior should be among the first things to consider and the following kindness quotes are testimony of that.
The best quotes on kindness
It is important to be empathetic and kind to others. When there are so many people suffering in the world, kindness can open doors for them and for you. Being compassionate to yourself or others may bring you peace and inspire you to do more. These following quotes will help you understand just how precious kindness is.
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 (more Princess Diana quotes)
Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.
JACKIE CHAN
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
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBILIUS SYRUS
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER
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
The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.
LADY GAGA (more Lady Gaga quotes)
In separateness lies the world’s great misery, in compassion lies the world’s true strength.
BUDDHA (more Buddha quotes)
A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.
DALAI LAMA (more Dalai Lama quotes)
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN
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
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 (more Roald Dahl quotes)
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love.
RICHARD GERE
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
AMELIA BARR
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 (more Abraham Lincoln quotes)
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
AESOP
Kindness quotes for kids
Research shows that empathy is one of eight core abilities that drive successful kids. Kindness quotes can help to engage in meaningful conversations about compassion and empathy with children. It is important to foster these qualities, as kids represent our future.
"Always be a little kinder than necessary."
JAMES M. BARRIE
"Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most."
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
"Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have."
MARGARET MEAD
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
PABLO CASALS
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up."
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
"Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness."
AESOP
"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."
BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH
"Teaching kids good manners is teaching them about kindness, consideration, and respect."
CLAIRE STRANBERG
"The simple act of caring is heroic."
EDWARD ALBERT
"Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
HENRY JAMES
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
DR. SEUSS
"If you see someone without a smile, give them yours."
DOLLY PARTON
"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!"
GEORGE ELLISTON
"Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them."
A. A. MILNE
Quotes about kindness and compassion
Compassion is crucial for our personal development, relationships, and society as a whole. We need compassion and kindness in order to form harmonious relationships, minimize stress and enhance emotional intelligence. Here are inspirational quotes on compassion from historical figures.
Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud
MAYA ANGELOU
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
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
DALAI LAMA
We can’t heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness.
MARY DAVIS
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
TAHEREH MAFI
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.
PEMA CHODRON
When we match compassion with purpose, we being to conquer the world.
ZACHARIAH THOMPSON
Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER
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
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
SENECA
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
JOHN GERZEMA
Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.
CHERYL STRAYED
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
STEVE MARABOLI
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up
JESSE JACKSON
Quotes about humility and kindness
A few kind words may not solve someone's problems, but they can give one the strength to deal with them. Little acts of kindness don't go unnoticed. And when you're kind to others, they in turn learn from you.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
MOTHER TERESA
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
RONALD REAGAN
Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.
CHARLES GLASSMAN
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
BOB KERREY
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
SARAH FIELDING
Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
A great man is always willing to be little.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
THOMAS MERTON
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 pardons others’ weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
EZRA TAFT BENSON
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
KING SOLOMON
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.
SHARON SALZBERG
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
MARY ANNE RADMACHER
Love and kindness quotes
There are so many ways one can define kindness in their lives. For starters, kindness is a quality or type of behaviour that is characterized by acts of generosity, consideration, and care, and concern for others. It is a virtue that is prized in almost every culture and religion in the world. It's no wonder that it goes hand in hand with love.
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
HADA BEJAR
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
MARLENE DIETRICH
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
To understand everything is to forgive everything.
OSHO
Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.
SAM ALTMAN
Kids want to appear tough and independent. Adults want to appear kind and perfect. The wise are just kind.
MAXIME LAGACÉ
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.
FRANK A. CLARK
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
JOSEPH JOUBERT
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
MOTHER TERESA
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
DR. SEUSS
Short kindness quotes
You can win the world only with kindness. Kindness can help you move mountains. It is a sword to each and every difficulty.
How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!
GEORGE ELLISTON
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
THOMAS CARLYLE
An egoist lives in poverty. A kind person lives in abundance.
MAXIME LAGACÉ
Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.
CONFUCIUS
One can’t be kind to one person and cruel to another.
MORARJI DESAI
Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.
C. A. BARTOL
To belittle, you have to be little.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
JOHN HOLMES
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
DALAI LAMA
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
We rise by lifting others.
ROBERT INGERSOLL
Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
BLAISE PASCAL
Act of kindness quotes
No matter what time of the day or year it is, take a moment to bring a smile to someone else’s face. Your small, kind gesture could make their day or even change their life. Here are some quotes that can inspire your next act of kindness.
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
DALAI LAMA
There are two ways of spreading light. To be a candle or mirror that reflects it.
EDITH WHARTON
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Yet, at the same time, we see extreme acts of kindness, selfless acts of courage and people doing all manner of good in the world.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
SOPHOCLES
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
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
SCOTT ADAMS
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
AESOP
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
AMELIA EARHART
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
BOB KERREY
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
ERIC HOFFER
Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness.
ANNE FRANK
