Kindness Quotes

"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

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." Og Mandino

"Be Silly. Be honest. Be kind." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told."
Edgar A. Guest, from Sermons We See

"He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it." Dante

"Be kind to those that meet you as you rise, you may pass them again as you fall." Irish Proverb

"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not." Samuel Johnson

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows." Robert Green Ingersoll

""You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." Kahlil Gibran

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

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

"It was only a sunny smile, And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light, it scattered the night, and made the day worth living." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude;
be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully;
be thoughtful, but not lazy;
be humble, but not timid;
be proud, but not arrogant;
have humor, but without folly." Jim Rohn

"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

"That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." William Wordsworth

"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness." Confucius

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."Arthur Ashe

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

"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

"One kind word can warm three winter months." Japanese Proverb

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

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver." Barbara De Angelis

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

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever." Margaret Cho

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

"Wherever there is a human being, there is a chance for a kindness." Seneca

"Kindness: a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Author Unknown, from The Road To Success is Always Under Construction

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

"Do a deed of simple kindness;
Though its end you may not see,
It may reach, like widening ripples,
Down a long eternity." Joseph Norris, from Influence

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

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion." The Dalai Lama

"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things,
in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations,
given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort." Humphrey Davy

"A kind word is like a Spring day." Russian Proverb

"We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds." Author Unknown, from A Great Life Lesson

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

"Kindness is always fashionable."Amelia E. Barr

"Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. John McLeod, from Kind Words

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

"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you,
it changes the world." Harold Kushner

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

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." Confucius

"Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." Scott Adams

Kindness "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Tao Te Ching