Kindness Quotes & Thoughts

Quotes on Everyday Kindness

1. "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." – Mark Twain
2. "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." – Aesop
3. "A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." – William Arthur Ward
4. "Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." – Robert Green Ingersoll
5. "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward." – Princess Diana
6. "Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty." – Anne Herbert
7. "Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." – Mother Teresa
8. "Every act of kindness grows the spirit and strengthens the soul." – Unknown
9. "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
10. "A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money." – John Ruskin

Inspirational Kindness Quotes

1. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." – Mahatma Gandhi
2. "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution." – Kahlil Gibran
3. "Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude." – Confucius
4. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." – Dalai Lama
5. "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." – Mark Twain
6. "The simple act of caring is heroic." – Edward Albert
7. "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." – Lao Tzu
8. "When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world." – Harold Kushner
9. "A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." – Amelia Earhart
10. "Kind people are the best kind of people." – Unknown

Kindness in Relationships

1. "Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference." – Barbara de Angelis
2. "A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." – Joseph Joubert
3. "Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time." – Ron Hall
4. "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." – Leo Buscaglia
5. "True love is about growing as a couple, learning about each other, and never giving up on each other." – Unknown
6. "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." – Washington Irving
7. "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
8. "It takes strength to be gentle and kind." – Steven Morrissey
9. "Return kindness for harsh words." – Tom Peterson
10. "A loving heart is the truest wisdom." – Charles Dickens

Kindness and Personal Growth

1. "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention." – Oscar Wilde
2. "You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." – Publilius Syrus
3. "Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations." – Paramahansa Yogananda
4. "Always be a little kinder than necessary." – James M. Barrie
5. "Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations." – Paramahansa Yogananda
6. "The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you." – Anita Roddick
7. "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway." – Henry Boyle
8. "The words of kindness are more healing to a dropping heart than balm or honey." – Sarah Fielding
9. "Politeness is the flower of humanity." – Joseph Joubert
10. "A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal." – Steve Maraboli

Kindness in Leadership

1. "A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men." – Thomas Carlyle
2. "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." – Theodore Isaac Rubin
3. "Leaders can choose to be kind." – Unknown
4. "The leader who shares experience ensures a bright future and leaves a legacy of success." – Unknown
5. "Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life." – Unknown
6. "The greatest leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'" – Lao Tzu
7. "To lead people, walk beside them." – Lao Tzu
8. "A truly great leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus." – Martin Luther King Jr.
9. "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." – Plato
10. "Leaders always choose the road less traveled." – Unknown

Kindness in the Workplace

1. "Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like." – Unknown
2. "Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day." – Sally Koch
3. "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." – Henry David Thoreau
4. "Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind." – Eric Hoffer
5. "Be the reason someone smiles today." – Unknown
6. "Helping one person might not change the whole world, but it could change the world for one person." – Unknown
7. "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." – Dalai Lama
8. "In a world where you can be anything, be kind." – Jennifer Dukes Lee
9. "Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody." – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
10. "You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness and Empathy

1. "Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." – Mohsin Hamid
2. "Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care." – Theodore Roosevelt
3. "Before you start to judge me, pause your busy life and just breathe and empathize." – Unknown
4. "Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity." – Roy T. Bennett
5. "Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another." – Alfred Adler
6. "Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change." – Max Carver
7. "The highest form of knowledge is empathy." – Bill Bullard
8. "The struggle of my life creates empathy - I am willing to feel for the other person." – Oprah Winfrey
9. "When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you." – Susan Sarandon
10. "Empathy is simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of 'You’re not alone.'" – Brené Brown

Random Acts of Kindness

1. "How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!" – George Elliston
2. "Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life." – Jackie Chan
3. "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." – Roald Dahl
4. "Kindness is the greatest wisdom." – Unknown
5. "There is no greater reward than working from your heart, and making a difference in the world." – Carlos Santana
6. "Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return." – Roy T. Bennett
7. "A good heart is better than all the heads in the world." – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
8. "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." – Vincent Van Gogh
9. "There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness." – John Connolly
10. "Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." – Mother Teresa

The Power of Kindness

1. "Compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love you’ve got." – Cheryl Strayed
2. "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
3. "A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows." – Francis of Assisi
4. "Kindness has a beautiful way of reaching down into a weary heart and making it shine like the rising sun." – Unknown
5. "I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness." – Mother Teresa
6. "We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do." – Mother Teresa
7. "Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is and having the courage to do it." – RAKtivist
8. "One kind word can change someone’s entire day." – Unknown
9. "You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!" – Anne Frank
10. "A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." – Richard Dehmel