50+ Best Be Kind Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Kind is generous, helpful, and thinking about other people’s feelings. Inspirational be kind quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.

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Famous Be Kind Quotes

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

We can each change the world, with genuine acts of kindness. Mongai Fankam

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

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

We can each change the world, with genuine acts of kindness Mongai Fankam

By speaking of ourselves in a positive and affirmative fashion and finding ways to eradicate self-hate, by speaking kindly about ourselves and those around us, we can foster a sense of love and compassion. Jessamyn Stanley

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

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

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

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Powerful Be Kind Quotes

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

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

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

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

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver. Brené Brown

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

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

The world is always going to be dangerous, and people get badly banged up, but how can there be more meaning than helping one another stand up in a wind and stay warm? Anne Lamott

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

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

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

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

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

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

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

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

Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation. Jasmine Guinness

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

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

Inspirational Be Kind Quotes

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire. Whoopi Goldberg

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else’s expense. And I find that that’s just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else’s feelings. Ellen DeGeneres

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ve always liked depressing music because a lot of times, listening to it when you’re down can actually make you feel less depressed. Also, even though a person may have problems with depression, sometimes you can actually be kind of comfortable in that space because you know how to operate within it. Chris Cornell

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

Be honest, be kind, and share the love. Suzi Quatro

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

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. Amelia Barr

I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you’re constantly focused on scoring hits against each one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind. Jacinda Ardern

Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation. Jasmine Guinness

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

Be kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious – and if you get into the habit of doing that – it’s the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren’t totally opposite. Viggo Mortensen

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

Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life – but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side. Jenny Lewis

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