74+ Best Kindness Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Kindness is about the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. Being kind can strengthen your relationships and sense of satisfaction in life. It brings about lasting well-being. Inspirational quotes about kindness will make you a better person by enlightening you, add beauty to your life, and encourage you to make a difference.

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Famous Kindness Quotes

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

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

Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony J. D Angelo

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

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

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

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

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

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. Mr. Rogers

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

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. Stephen Grellet

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

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. Sophocles

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

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.  Washington Irving

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

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. Douglas Coupland

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

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

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

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind. Charles M. Schwab

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. Sarah Fielding

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

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

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. Saint Ambrose

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

Kindness that simple word. To be kind–it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it. Roald Dahl

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

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. Mr. Rogers

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

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

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

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton

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

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. Nelson Mandela

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

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent Van Gogh

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome. Amelia Barr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J.K. Rowling

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. Audrey Hepburn

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

Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit. Robert J. Furey

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

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. Humphry Davy

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

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

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

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

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

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. Pablo Casais

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