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Kindness Quotes

Kindness is seeing the best in others when they cannot see it in themselves.

Anonymous

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mark Twain

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

Tommy Lee Jones

Kindness is the ability to put someone else’s needs above your own.

Anonymous

The greatest act of kindness is giving to someone who can never repay you.

Anonymous

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

Lao Tzu

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

Eric Hoffer

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

J.M. Barrie

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

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.

Anonymous

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

Anonymous

Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.

Roy T. Bennett

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 begins with the understanding that we all struggle.

Charles Glassman

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

Amelia Earhart

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

Anonymous

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

Kindness is a wonderful way to let another struggling soul know that there is still love in this world.

Anonymous

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Amelia Earhart

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa

Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Anne Herbert

One can’t be kind to one person and cruel to another.

Anonymous

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

Sophocles

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Anonymous

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Kindness is a powerful tool in the hands of those who are courageous enough to use it.

Anonymous

Kindness is the root of all good things.

Anonymous

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

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

Mark Twain

A kind word is like a spring day.

Russian Proverb

One kind word can change someone’s entire day.

Anonymous

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

John Ruskin

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

Scott Adams

Kindness is loaning someone your strength instead of reminding them of their weakness.

Anonymous

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

Oscar Wilde

Kindness is choosing to acknowledge and celebrate the beauty in others, regardless of whether or not they can see it themselves.

Anonymous

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 is the greatest form of wisdom.

Anonymous

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Henry David Thoreau

It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.

Anonymous

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

Amelia Barr

Kindness costs nothing, but it means everything.

Anonymous

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

Aesop

Kindness is free to give, but priceless to receive.

Anonymous

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.

Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is spreading sunshine into people’s lives regardless of the weather.

Anonymous

To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

Anonymous

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

Liz Armbruster

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

Kindness is a gift everyone can afford to give.

Anonymous

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

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

Mother Teresa

Kindness is love made visible.

M. Swanepoel

Kindness gives birth to kindness.

Sophocles

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.

Anonymous

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Tommy Lee Jones

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

Anonymous

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Bob Kerrey

Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.

Kahlil Gibran

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Plato

The simplest acts of kindness are far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever has not kindness has not faith.

Muhammad

Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life.

Anonymous

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

Jackie Chan

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Buddha

Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear.

Mark Twain