50 Inspirational Quotes on Kindness to Brighten Your Day

"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world."

- Anne Frank

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

- John Ruskin

"Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"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

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

- Jackie Chan

"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

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force."

- Publilius Syrus

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

- Scott Adams

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

- Saint Basil

"We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"The true essence of humankind is kindness."

- Tenzin Gyatso

"Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return."

- Emanuel Swedenborg

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load."

- Brian Tracy

"I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"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

"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

"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

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

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Bob Kerrey

"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

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."

- Annie Lennox

"Change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time."

- Ron Hall

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

- Scott Adams

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

- Scott Adams

"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

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

- Albert Schweitzer

"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Plato

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life."

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

"The ideals that 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

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Aesop

"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

"Being kind means responding to the needs of others – and people can be kind, no matter how old or young we are."

- Mr. Rogers

"Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

- Eric Hoffer

"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 the sunshine in which virtue grows."

- Robert G. Ingersoll

"I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way."

- Lady Gaga

"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."

- Saint Basil

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on."

- Dolly Parton

"Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be."

- Josh Radnor

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- William Wordsworth

"Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness."

- Holly Branson

"You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example."

- Judy Sheindlin

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

- Joseph Joubert

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

- Kahlil Gibran

"But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness."

- R.J. Palacio

"If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete."

- Buddha

"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone."

- Shannon L. Alder

"There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do."

- Rachel Naomi Remen

"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

- J.M. Barrie

"We rise by lifting others."

- Robert Ingersoll

"Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable."

- Alexander the Great

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

- Tommy Lee Jones

"When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people."

- Jens Stoltenberg

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

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

"As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency."

- Caroline Kennedy

"The shortest distance between two people is a smile."

- Victor Borge

"Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others."

- Jill Biden

"Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome."

- Amelia Barr

"There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world."

- Bob Anderson

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey."

- Sarah Fielding

"Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down."

- Steve Maraboli

"How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it."

- George Elliston

"We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods."

- Paul Bloom

"An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity."

- Saadi

"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle."

- Charles Glassman

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Tommy Lee Jones

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."

- Confucius

"I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness."

- Sofia Vergara

"True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others."

- Alek Wek

"With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other."

- Marielle Heller

"In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths."

- Graham Greene

"Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style."

- Rebecca Solnit

"When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust."

- Raja Krishnamoorthi

"Hate ricochets, but kindness does too."

- Robin Roe

"If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship."

- Dustin Lance Black

"Authenticity, living your truth, kindness - these are necessary virtues."

- Merle Dandridge

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

- Samuel Johnson

"We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony."

- Ananya Panday

"Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure."

- King Solomon

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."

- Frank Herbert

"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."

- Nellie Bly

"Kindness is the mark we leave on the world."

- RAKtivist

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

- Mark Twain

"Kindness is a simple choice that profoundly affects the quality of people’s well-being."

"Kindness is free; sprinkle that stuff everywhere."

"Kindness is contagious. When we're kind, we inspire others to be kind, and they inspire others to do the same, and so on and on."

"Together we can."