Here are some of the best kindness quotes that motivate you to make the world a better place.
Kindness is a trait or pattern of behavior marked by acts of charity, consideration, and concern for others.
Take a moment to be kind to someone else on Random Acts of Kindness Day or any other day of the year. Your tiny act of kindness may brighten their day or even change their life.
140+ Kindness Quotes Being The Best Act
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.― J.K. Rowling
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.___Lao Tzu
I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.__Brigitte Bardot
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.___Captain Beefheart
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.___Isaac Bashevis Singer
The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.___Charles de Lint
Kindness is strength. – Robert G. Ingersoll
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.___Eric Hoffer
Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.___Amit Ray
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.― Plato
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.___Morgan Freeman
Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.___Mother Teresa
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. – Sophocles
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.___Plato
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.― Roy T. Bennett
There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.___Catherine Ryan Hyde, Pay it Forward
Quotes about Kindness
Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.___Gordon B. Hinckley
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. – William Arthur Ward
I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.___Mother Teresa
What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.___Barbara Kingsolver
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.― Roy T. Bennett
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.___Helen James
I think people are willing to talk about anything if you come to it with kindness.___Jacqueline Woodson
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.__Roy T. Bennett
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
Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in our own.___Adam Lindsay Gordon
Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called kindness.___A.S. Byatt
You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!___Anne Frank
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.― Mark Twain
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.___R.J. Palacio, Wonder
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others’ feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others’ weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all – to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.___Ezra Taft Benson
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. – Joseph Joubert
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
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.___Dalai Lama
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.___Theodore Isaac Rubin
Make kindness your modus operandi and change your world.__Annie Lennox
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.___Dustin Lance Black
Kindness means building bridges instead of walls.___Unknown
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings.___Pearl S. Buck
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.___Buddha
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.___Charlie Chaplin
No one has ever become poor by giving.― Anne Frank
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.___Samuel Johnson
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.___Thomas More, Utopia
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!___George Elliston
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.___Dolly Parton
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
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.___Khalil Gibran
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.― Dalai Lama XIV
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.___Tommy Lee Jones
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.___Lao Tzu
Practice kindness – particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.___Lewis Richmond
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
Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in life.___Mandy Hale
Be a little kinder than you have to.― E. Lockhart
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it. – Douglas Coupland
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
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.___Albert Einstein
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals.___Brendan Behan
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.___Albert Schweitzer
Hate ricochets, but kindness does too.__Robin Roe
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.― R.J. Palacio
Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.___Dennis Prager
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.__Billy Graham
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.___Thomas Carlyle
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.__John Ruskin
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.___Mahatma Gandhi
All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.___Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Forget injuries; never forget kindness.___Confucius
I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.___Lady Gaga
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the figure of a free people.___Franklin D. Roosevelt
Love and kindness go hand in hand. – Marian Keyes
The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.___Maya Angelou
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time –affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.___Dean Koontz
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.___Kahlil Gibran
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.___P.D. James
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.___Sharon Salzberg
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.___William Shakespeare, Henry V
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. – Audrey Hepburn
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.___Ray Bradbury, Farenheit 451
Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool.___Syed Balkhi
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.___Steve Maraboli
We’re all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person…so it’s easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.___Natsuki Takaya
Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.___Amy Leigh Mercree
Because I haven’t yet learned the simplest and most important thing of all: the world is difficult, and we are all breakable. So just be kind.___Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl
Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.___James Fadiman
Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits.___Kirpal Singh
Choose being kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.___Richard Carlson
Be kind in your actions. Do not think that you are the only one who can do efficient work, work worth showing. This makes you harsh in your judgment of others who may not have the same talents. Do your best and trust that others do their best. And be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.___Mother Teresa
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.__Amelia Earhart
Be a little kinder than you have to. – E. Lockhart
When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.__Buddha
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.___Bob Kerrey
You’ve got to be kind. – Kurt Vonnegut
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.___Thich Nhat Hanh
Always be kind, but kindness doesn’t mean that you have to not say what you think.__Grace VanderWaal
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.___J.M. Barrie
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.___Abraham Joshua Heschel
It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.___Aldous Huxley
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.__Jack Kerouac
If you can be anything, be kind.___Unknown
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.___Thomas Fuller
Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.___Mencius
When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.___Debbie Ford
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.___William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.___William Makepeace Thackeray
If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.___J.M. Coetzee
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses… swapped back and forth and over again.___Michelle Obama, Becoming
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.___Brad Meltzer
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.___Alice Monroe
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. – Publilius Syrus
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.___Anne Rice
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.― Roy T. Bennet
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.___Roy T. Bennett
Acts of Kindness Quotes
There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.___Mary Anne Radmacher
Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness, always.___Rod Williams
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.___St. Basil
I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.___J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit
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
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.___Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.___Roy T. Bennett
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. – William John Bennett
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.__Kahlil Gibran
Nothing is black or white, nothing’s ‘us or them.’ But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There’s incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.___Dave Matthews
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.― Nelson Mandela
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.___Frank A. Clark
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.___William Wordsworth
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.___William Penn
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.__Seneca
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.___Scott Adams
I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help.___Elizabeth Kübler Ross
Sometimes it’s easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.___Randa Abdel-Fattah
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.___James Boswell
I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.____Liam Neeson
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.___Benjamin Franklin
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
Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.― Roy T. Bennett
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.– Tennessee Williams
No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.___Kevin Heath
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.___Mark Twain
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.― Desmond Tutu
Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.___Kevin Heath
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.___Alexander Pope
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.__Ron Hall