65 Inspiring Quotes to Spark Kindness in Your Life

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

- Maya Angelou

"Make kindness the norm®"

- The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

"Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions."

- Kiana Tom

"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

"No-one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

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

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions."

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Scott Adams

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

- J.M. Barrie

"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

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

- William Arthur Ward

"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

"Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity."

- Jason Becker

"What this world needs is a new kind of army- the army of the kind."

- Cleveland Amory

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

"Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else."

- Sri Chonmony

"You protect those who need it, no matter how small."

- Dr Seuss

"If there's a problem, you help fix it."

- Dr Seuss

"You stand up for what is right."

- Dr Seuss

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

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

- John Wooden

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."

- Mother Teresa

"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

"My true religion is kindness. That is a great moral position — practicing kindness, keeping one’s heart open in the presence of suffering."

- Anne Lamott

"The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare."

- Mike McIntyre

"To kindness and love, the things we need most!"

- Grinch

"Although people can be cruel sometimes, kindness always wins. Enmity breaks hearts apart, but love assembles the pieces."

- Anoir Ou-chad

"Kindness is its own type of magic, don’t you think?"

- Alyssa Colman

"Whoever you are — I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Graham Greene

"Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty."

- Anne Herbert

"Lose natural kindness and maybe / The heart-revealing intimacy / That chooses right, and never find a friend."

- William Butler Yeats

"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 least one which makes the heart run over."

- James Boswell

"Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him."

- Frank A. Clark

"It is never too late to be kind, polite, and a loving human being."

- Eddie Jaku

"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

"People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty."

- Maggie Stiefvater

"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

"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

"A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality."

- Suzy Kassem

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

- Lady Gaga

"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

- Steve Maraboli

"I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now."

- Stephen Grellet

"I believe now that the universe delivers random acts of kindness, and it’s on us to decide what to do with them."

- Christina Lauren

"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

"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

"Kindness starts with one."

- The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation

"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

"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."

- William Arthur Ward

"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 kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."

- William John Bennett

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness"

- William Arthur Ward

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Booker T. Washington

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Harold Kushner

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have."

- Margaret Mead

"Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude."

- Confucius

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

- Amelia Earhart

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."

- John Holmes

"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person."

- Plato

"Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits."

- Kirpal Singh

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!"

- George Elliston

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"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

"Always be a little kinder than necessary."

- James M. Barrie

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"I've learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life."

- Maya Angelou

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

- Maya Angelou

"Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

- Plato

"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

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool."

- Syed Balkhi

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

- Britt Nicole

"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

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can control your attitude toward them."

- Maya Angelou

"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

- Swami Sivananda

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."

- Frank A. Clark

"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

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

- Samuel Johnson

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."

- Confucius

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

- Anne Frank

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

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

- R.J. Palacio

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

- Dave Barry

"Nothing will work unless you do."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est - this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History."

- Ludwig Feuerbach

"The more sympathy you give, the less you need."

- Malcolm Forbes

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about."

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

"Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return."

"Educating the mind without educating the heart, is no education at all."

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

"Always ask yourself: “What will happen if I say nothing?”"

"Believe there is good in the world"

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

"Kindness is the greatest wisdom."

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

"Go be kind"

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

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

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