50+ Powerful Quotes About Kindness

Kindness quotes help to highlight the power and the importance of kindness is a busy, uncertain world.

If you need to remind yourself (or someone else) of the power of kindness, then the following collection of quotes about kindness will be perfect.

Reading, reviewing, sharing and contemplating on these quotes will also leave you in a more positive mood and will inspire you to look for ways in which you can show a little more kindness to those around you, and even perhaps, a random act of kindness to a stranger who could really use it.

Quotes on Kindness

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” Dalai Lama

“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.” Hada Bejar

“There’s no room for hate and violence in this world. We must learn to be more kind, compassionate, empathetic, and sympathetic to humanity.” Germany Kent

“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

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

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

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

“An honest concern for others is the key factor in improving our day to day lives. When you are warm-hearted, there is no room for anger, jealousy, or insecurity. Healthy, happy families and a healthy peaceful nation are dependent on warm-heartedness.” Dalai Lama

“Schedule kindness in your day. Watch how small acts of kindness can change your mood, bring someone else joy, and give both of you a positive benefit.” Germany Kent

“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.” Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

Short Kindness Quotes

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

“Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” Confucius

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.” Annie Lennox

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Unknown

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

“If kindness wins, accountability rules.” Galit Breen

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

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” Dalai Lama

“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” Eric Hoffer

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

“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.” Tommy Lee Jones

“Pour God’s love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.” Shannon L. Alder

“Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.” Ron Hall

Kindness Quotes for Kids

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr Seuss

“Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.” Holly Branson

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” Theodore Isaac Rubin

“The world is full of kind people… If you cannot find one, be one.” Unknown

“You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.” Captain Beefheart

“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.” Buddha

“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” William Makepeace Thackeray

“Always be kind, but kindness doesn’t mean that you have to not say what you think.” Grace VanderWaal

“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

Power of Kindness Quotes

“There seems to be a trend that I have noticed. It seems the more peace and love I wish on others the more peace and love come to me.” Germany Kent

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” Jesse Jackson

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

“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. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.” Paul Bloom

“No one is born hating another person…People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Nelson Mandela

“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