In a world that can sometimes feel harsh and hurried, a little kindness can go a long way. Whether it’s a warm smile, a thoughtful gesture, or a few encouraging words, acts of kindness have the power to brighten our days and uplift our spirits.
To inspire you to spread kindness in your daily life, we’ve curated a collection of 40 beautiful quotes about kindness.
Let these words remind you of the profound impact that a kind heart can have on the world around you.
1. Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life — Jackie Chan
2. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom — Theodore Isaac Rubin
3. Kindness is free to give, but priceless to receive — Unknown
4. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
5. Kindness costs nothing, but means everything — Unknown
6. Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple with no logical end — Scott Adams
7. The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer — Mahatma Gandhi
8. A kind word is like a spring day — Russian Proverb
9. Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness — Seneca
10. Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude — Confucius
11. Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is and having the courage to do it — RAKtivist
12. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love — Lao Tzu
13. Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome — Amelia Barr
14. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted — Aesop
15. In a world where you can be anything, be kind — Unknown
16. 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
17. Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like — Unknown
18. Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
19. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money — John Ruskin
20. Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers — Kahlil Gibran
21. We rise by lifting others — Robert Ingersoll
22. You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late — Ralph Waldo Emerson
23. A warm smile is the universal language of kindness — William Arthur Ward
24. No one has ever become poor by giving — Anne Frank
25. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others — Mahatma Gandhi
26. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes — Joseph B. Wirthlin
27. To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens — F. Scott Fitzgerald
28. The beginning is always today — Mary Shelley
29. When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know — Unknown
30. Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us — Pope Francis
31. One kind word can warm three winter months — Japanese Proverb
32. The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings — Dave Weinbaum
33. 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
34. Be kind whenever it is possible. It is always possible — Dalai Lama
35. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else — Booker T. Washington
36. 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
37. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind — Eric Hoffer
38. Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows — Robert Green Ingersoll
39. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention — Oscar Wilde
40. The end is the beginning of all things, suppressed and hidden, awaiting to be released through the rhythm of pain and pleasure — Jiddu Krishnamurti
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