Kindness - Quotes

A little spark of kindness can put a colossal burst of sunshine into someone’s life. - Unknown

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves. - Amelia Earhar

A word of kindness is better than a fat pie. - Russian Proverb

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know. - Unknown

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Be the reason someone smiles today. Kindness is beautiful. - Unknown

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

Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother with a cheerful face. - Unknown

Do not underestimate a moment of kindness. It has the power to change lives in ways you may never know. - Unknown

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

How much easier it is to act kindly and naturally to our fellow men, and even to the domestic, useful and faithful animals about us, than to effect a rude and boisterous demeanour, which is sure not only to make others despise us, but on reflection to cause us to despise ourselves. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

If you can't be kind, be quiet. - Unknown

If you want to live in a world of peace, encourage kindness, both in yourself and in those around you. - Ayamanatara

In a world where you can be anything, be kind. - Unknown

In the end only kindness matters. - Jim Garnett

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love. - Unknown

It is a shallow mind that suspects or rejects an offered kindness because it is unable to discover the motive. - Arthur Helps

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. - Unknown

Kindness always happens at the beginning of a smile. - Robert Clancy

Kindness and courtesy can make an average person superior; indifference and lack of concern can make a superior person average. - Unknown

Kindness begets kindness. - Unknown

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

Kindness can reach the deepest call of the heart and soul, and lead to a different kind of world and self. - Jean Maalouf

Kindness comes back, like a boomerang, to those who are kind. Perhaps its return takes years. Perhaps the kindness returns from a different direction than that which we sent out kindness. But it will return. It is never lost. - John Marks Templeton

Kindness comes in all sizes. Sometimes it is only a little thing we give – a trifle, a smile, a piece of fruit, a hug, and a kind word. If it is given willingly, the kindness is doubled. - Syrus

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve. - Joseph Joubert

Kindness doesn’t take much effort, just a choice within your heart. - Robert Clancy

Kindness has a beautiful way of reaching down into a weary heart and making it shine like the rising sun. - Unknow

Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world. - Jean Maalouf

Kindness in heart much better than gold in bank. - Charlie Chan

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another. - Walter Savage Landor

Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, and kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu

Kindness is a bottomless fountain – not a river running outward. True kindness cannot be given away, it can only be shared; and in order to share the grace of kindness, we need to partake of it as well. - Will Glennon

Kindness is a clear perennial spring, rising up from a heart replete with universal philanthropy, holding on its way, unimpeded by prejudices or partialities, and distributing its benefits alike upon all that it meets with in its course. - John Angell James

Kindness is a graceful deed done without the other person's having to request it. - Sheldon B. Stephenson

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

Kindness is an instinctive act, but that impulse must be nurtured, not merely by positive external feedback, but also by internal decision. Make kindness your guiding principle and you will not go wrong. Acknowledge to yourself each time you do something out of kindness and allow yourself to feel good about it so that, as you go forward, more and more of your acts will be acts rooted in kindness. - Ayamantara

Kindness is helpful to the happiness of both recipient and giver. Who does not feel happier on showing kindness to others, and who does not feel happier on receiving the manifestation of kindness? Deeds of kindness shown in the little things of life constitute man's chief happiness. Many are not able to do any great things for others, but all can find abundant opportunity of showing little deeds of kindness which will add much to the happiness of mankind. - Nicias Ballard Cooksey

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

Kindness is closely linked with happiness: the kinder you are to others, the happier you will be. - Mary Jaksch

Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers. - Croft M. Pentz

Kindness is more persuasive than force. - Aesop

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 more binding than a loan. - Chinese Proverb

Kindness is never a flaw. - Unknown

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty. - Frederick Greenwood

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. - Honore de Balzac

Kindness is the currency of our hearts, the only currency that can never be subtracted and never be balanced in anyone's ledgers. We choose to be kind because it is the way we want to live our lives, not because we will be rewarded in some way. When we start to keep score, we become closed-hearted: I'm not doing anything nice until someone does something good for me. Our acts of kindness are whole unto themselves. They require no acknowledgement and no reward, for the act itself returns us once again to the heart of our own humanity. - Will Glennon

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the green grass near the hard pebbles of the road. - James L. Gordon

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

Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return. - Lewis B. Smedes

Kindness is the spirit in which we are to live. Our lives are never full and abundant until the spirit of kindness is our ordinary way of living. - Sheldon B. Stephenson

Kindness is the velvet of social intercourse. - James L. Gordon

Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen – all heart to feel – all eye to examine and to weep – all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away. - John Angell James

Kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be charitable and not kind; merciful, yet not kind; self-denying and yet not kind. If they would add a little common kindness to their uncommon graces, they would convert ten where they now only abate the prejudice of one. - Frederick W. Faber

Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe. - Dawna Markova

Kindness is, of the bounteous tree, which we all so oft do seek to become sustained by. - Mark Anthony

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him. - Frank A. Clark

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. - Mencius

Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes. - Madame Swetchine

Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. - Talmud

Never regret the right things you’ve done, even for the wrong persons. Kindness should be universal, not selective. - Unknown

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

No person is wholly bad who is kind to any living thing. - Lewis F. Korns

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness – it is usually returned. - Cort R. Flint

Our regrets are the least for those past errors that were made on the side of kindness. - Lewis F. Korns

Real kindness seeks no return. - Tiruvalluvar

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

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you. - Anita Roddick

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others. - Wayne Dyer

The most beautiful thing a human being can do is help another human being. Kindness doesn’t cost a thing. - Cladia Olivares

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. - Oscar Wilde

The true and noble way to kill a foe, is not to kill him; you, with kindness, may so change him that he shall cease to be a foe, and then he's slain. - Charles Aleyn

There's no human problem that can't be solved by kindness. - Edward Morgan

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

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson. - Arthur Lynch

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. - Robert Brault

Unfading are the gardens of kindness. - Greek Proverb

We seem to feel keenest the kindness that comes from one who is generally cruel. - Lewis F. Korns

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

Whatever you sow in the way of kindness and joy, you will regain many times over, for in kindness, to give is to gain. - Unknown

Wherever there is a human being, there is the opportunity for a kindness. - Seneca

You are always given the opportunity to make someone feel appreciated. It makes a world of difference to someone who feels empty or ignored. When it comes to kindness, nothing is ever small. - Dodinsky

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

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