Compassion Quotes

"Make kindness the norm®"

- The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!"

- Anne Frank

"We get so worried about being pretty. Let's be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong."

- Britt Nicole

"Kindness starts with one."

- The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Be a little kinder than you have to."

- E. Lockhart

"Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness"

- William Arthur Ward

"Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Plato

"The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines."

- Charles Kuralt

"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on."

- Henry Burton

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."

- Dave Barry

"Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."

- Samuel Johnson

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

- Ettiene de Grellet

"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

"You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."

- John Wooden

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

- George Eliot

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world."

- William Shakespeare

"Because nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"It isn’t courageous to do the right thing."

- Jenna Bush Hager

"Take the focus off yourself. That may seem counterintuitive, because everyone is busy, but when you help someone else, you’re really helping yourself."

- Hoda Kotb

"We don't have to agree on anything to be kind to one another"

"The world is full of kind people... If you can't find one, be one"

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind"

"Kindness is free; let's pass it on"

"Go be kind"

"Our days are happier when we give people a piece of our heart rather than a piece of our mind"

"There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed."