Kindness Quotes

"In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a "soft issue" or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas ... toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. 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, Human Kindness Foundation

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

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
- Gandhi

"The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.
- John Gay

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
- Swami Sivanada

"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

"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
- Dalai Lama

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

"The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way."
- Roberta Alan

"The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days."
- Stephen Jay Gould

"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward"
- William John Bennet

"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, pass it on; Let it travel down the years, let it wipe another's tears, till in heaven the deed appears, passit on"
- Henry Burton

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little"
- Sydney Smith

"The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey"
- Diana Princess of Wales

"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."
- Rabbi Harold Kushner

"Be kind - everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"
- John Watson

"Throw out the lifeline, throw out the lifeline, someone is sinking today"
- Edward Smith Ufford

"If you were busy being kind, before you knew it, you would find you'd soon forget to think 'twas true that someone was unkind to you'. If you were busy being glad, and cheering people who are sad, although your heart might ache a bit, you'd soon forget to notice it"
- R. Foreman

"As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to speech"
- Katherine Francke

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together"
- Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity into smiles"
- Washington Irving

"Giving is so often thought of in terms of the things we give, but our greatest giving is of our time, and kindness, and even comfort for those who need it. We look on these gifts as unimportant - until we need them."
- Joyce Sequichie Hifler

"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life"
- Samuel Johnson

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile"
- Mother Teresa

"If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself"
- A. Neilen

"If someone were to pay you $.10 for every kind word you ever spoke and collect $.05 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
- Nonpareil

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

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again"
- William Penn

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

"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind"
- Malayan Proverb

"Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater that love. Kindness is good will, kindness says 'I want you to be happy' "
- Randolph Ray

"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve"
- Jacqueline Schiff

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

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

"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person"
- C. Neil Strait

"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

"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict one ought to chose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot"
- Leroy Jacy Syrop

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force"
- Publilius Syrus

"One kind word can warm three winter months" - Japanese proverb

"Kindness is within the gift of the very poor, the wretched, the despised. It is the true test of worth"
- Pam Brown

"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness, for it is usually returned"
- Mark Ortman

"If your words are soft and sweet, they won't be as hard to swallow if you have to eat them" - Unknown

"Kindness and honesty can only be expected from the strong" - Unknown

"Kindness has more power than compulsion" - Unknown

"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

"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

"Little kindness...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways" - Unknown