Inspirational Quotes About Kindness

Actions Speak Louder Than Words: 100+ Inspirational Quotes About Kindness

It’s impossible to truly change the world if you’re not kind to your fellow human beings. Being kind isn’t about big gestures, though; it’s about the little things, like taking the time to remember someone’s name or lending a helping hand when someone needs it most. These are quotes about kindness that will inspire you to be more compassionate, forgiving, and generous with your friends, family members, and even strangers.

100+ Inspirational Quotes About Kindness

It’s easy to get caught up in our day-to-day lives, with everything that we have going on. Whether it’s at work or home, it can be hard to see a clear path forward. But there are simple ways that you can bring kindness into your life, and little by little, you can start to feel calmer and more centered. 

Here are some quotes about kindness to help inspire you. Read them, share them with others, and find new ways to practice kindness every day.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – Dalai Lama 

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching,

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

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke, 

The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. – Albert Einstein,

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi (

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain, The Invalid's Story (1870)

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. – Abraham Lincoln, Speech (1863)

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein, 

Gently, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop, The Lion and The Mouse (6th century BC) 

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you; Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous; Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough; Give your best anyway. Whatever you do, don't feel sorry for yourself. One good bit of luck deserves another. – Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968)

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. – Eleanor Roosevelt, speech (1938)

You can open doors with kindness and close them with gentleness. You can drop bitterness just by saying no thank you when anger tries to lead you down a dark path. – Bryant McGill, 

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) 

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. – Robert Frost, A Boy's Will (1913) 

Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love it! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank, diary entry, June 12, 1944 

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. – Mother Teresa 

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

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put into that action. Love is when you take off your mask and show someone who you really are. – Anonymous 

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, then I would hold the entire night sky in my hands. – Anonymous 

Kindness doesn't cost anything but pays many dividends. – Unknown 

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. – Dalai Lama 

To err is human, to forgive divine. – Alexander Pope 

It isn't always enough to be compassionate in words alone; sometimes you must demonstrate compassion through action as well. – Bryant McGill 

When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. – Ram Dass 

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. – Robert Frost 

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw 

The best way out is always through. -Robert Frost 

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung 

You cannot do kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841) 

Do not send anyone away empty-handed. Give them something they did not expect. – Persian proverb

 Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. – Katheryn Casey 

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ― Howard Thurman 

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

The Ugly Duckling You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. – Henry Drummond 

One kind word can warm three winter months. – Japanese Proverb 

We should be grateful to the people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust 

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. – Walter Lippmann 

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do. – Mother Teresa 

The most powerful weapon on earth is kindness.

Kindness quotes by famous people

1. Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain 
2. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
3. Always do right—this will gratify some and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain 
4. No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop 
5. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama 
6. The only way to have a friend is to be one. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 
7. The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker. – Helen Keller 
8. It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner and when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not yet a winner. – Vince Lombardi 
9. We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. – Jim Carrey 
10. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. – Lao Tzu 
11. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. – Dalai Lama 
12. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. – Mark Twain 
13. Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love it! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank
14.  There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – William Shakespeare 
15. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu 
16. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. – Buddha 
17. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw 
18. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar 
19. Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle 
20. Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain 
21. Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson 
22. Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. – Abraham Lincoln 
23. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair 
24. Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve. – Mary Kay 
25. Ash, It is never too late to be what you might have been. – George Eliot 
26. Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr. 
27. To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. – e.e. cummings I

Quotes about kindness and compassion

1. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and friendship is more important than either. -Richard P. Feynman 
2. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu 
3. In every person, there is something that is wanting to be loved. When we love that person for what he is, we give him what he needs most. -Werner Erhard 
4. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. -Ernest Hemingway 
5. It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. -J.K. Rowling 
6. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -Martin Luther King Jr. 
7. A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. -Martin Luther King Jr. 
8. You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. -Epicurus 
9. We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kind of cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that sentence! -Neil deGrasse 
10. Tyson The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. -Edmund Burke 
11. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. -Albert Einstein 
12. One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -Bertrand Russell 
13. All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence, and leading the individual towards freedom. -Albert Einstein 
14. Religion without science is blind, science without religion is lame. -Albert Einstein 
15. There cannot be a God because if there were one then I would not believe that I am God; therefore no such God exists. -Voltaire 
16. If there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. -Bertrand Russell 
17. Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. -Ashley Montague 
18. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. -E.F. Schumacher 
19. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. -Abraham Lincoln
20. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? -Confucius 
21. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. -Lao Tzu 
22. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain 
23. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -Henry David Thoreau 
24. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity. -Marcus Tullius Cicero 
25. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. -Socrates 
26. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. -Rosa Parks 
27. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. -Theodore Roosevelt 
28. It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. -Thomas Paine The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. -Robert Frost 
29. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau 

Power of kindness quotes

Research shows that being kind not only makes you happier but also healthier. In fact, it’s one of many health benefits of volunteering. So dig up your old high school yearbook and turn to your friends who’ve never taken a Psychology 101 class: we’re about to make them feel dumb! Just kidding! Let’s do some reading... And writing... And learning... And more writing... Because, like everything else in life, kindness takes practice. But what better time than now? Let’s get started! 

Here are 10 inspirational quotes about kindness from our favorite self-help gurus: 

1. Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain 

2. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved despite ourselves. – Victor Hugo 

3. What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. – Dwight D. Eisenhower 

4. There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets credit for it. – Robert Woodruff 

5. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.- Dalai Lama

6. Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love it! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank 

7. Every act of kindness matters, every act of love has a ripple effect.- Sharon Salzberg 

8. It's not enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it's not enough to believe in it. One must work at it.- Eleanor Roosevelt