Best 150 Kindness Quotes on That Noble Feeling of Selflessness

What a wonderful world it would be if all people acted in generosity and consideration for everyone around them! Being considerate may seem quite simple yet it often seems rare. Many cultures and religions value such virtues, however in modern societies many have forgotten what basic good manners might be like.The following kindness quotes will remind us all about it.

This quality of being friendly, generous and considerate is not as popular as it may seem. Communicating with affection towards a neighbor, a family member or any fellow city-dweller can only result in a better society. In fact, one may gain much more from being kind and can make relationships stronger and gives a sense of satisfaction as we are profoundly social and caring species.
With the ups and downs in life, as sometimes the downs may be more frequent, being friendly may not be the first expressed attitude, however we must all make an effort to keep in touch with our sensitive and affectionate side so as to always be connected with the good in our nature. Keeping in touch, celebrating someone you love, giving honest compliments and expressing how special someone is to us are all should become part of our daily life. Moreover, giving a helping hand to the elderly, sharing, donating and much more, are things that will give us all a sense of bonding as human beings.

Here you will find different quotes on how important it is to be the best we can be and inspire others to do the same. It’s always a good idea to remind ourselves and others the significance of being considerate.

Table of Contents

1. Best Kindness Quotes
2. Be Kind Quotes
3. Short Kindness Quotes
4. Famous Kindness Quotes
5. Inspirational Quotes About Kindness
6. Choose Kindness Quotes
7. Quotes about Random Acts Of Kindness
8.  Insightful Kindness Quotes
9. Kindness Quotes on Images

Best Kindness Quotes

• 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
• Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. Desmond Tutu
• If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours. Dolly Parton
• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
• The shortest distance between two people is a smile. Victor Borge
• The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Kahlil Gibran
• Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused. Tommy Lee Jones

• Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. Confucius
• A kind word is like a Spring day. Russian Proverb
• We rise by lifting others. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Robert Green Ingersoll
• Kindness is love in action. Tara Cousineau
• Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joseph Joubert
• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran
• Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer
• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
• When words are both true and kind, they can change the world. Buddha
• Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. Leo Tolstoy
• Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao-Tzu
• For it is in giving that we receive. St. Francis of Assisi

• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. William Makepeace Thackeray
• Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise. Steve Maraboli
• I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Hobbit
• How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare
• He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both. William Shakespeare, Henry V
• Kindness gives birth to kindness. Sophocles
• A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist. Sophocles
• The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
• I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
• Τhe easiest way to open a closed door is with kindness and respect. Manuel Corazzari
• Kindness is invincible. Marcus Aurelius
• As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. Mary Anne Radmacher
• Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily. Deepak Chopra
• Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. Paramahansa Yogananda
• One can’t be kind to one person and cruel to another. Morarji Desai
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
• He who plants kindness gathers love. Saint Basil
• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. Dalai Lama
• The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission. George MacDonald
• You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness! Anne Frank
• When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou
• Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness. Mencius
• 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
• Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Rabindranath Tagore
• The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. Sarah Fielding
• Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up. Jesse Jackson
• Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts a person up. Plato
• There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. Cicero
• Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you—and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing else does. George Saunders

Be Kind Quotes

• Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud. Maya Angelou
• Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. Plato
• If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
• Choose being kind over being right and you’ll be right every time. Richard Carlson
• If speaking kindly to plants makes them grow, imagine what speaking kindly to humans can do. Unknown
• Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. George Saunders
• I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness. Mother Teresa
• It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. Steve Maraboli
• Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that are reckless with yours. Mary Schmich
• Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. J. M. Barrie
• It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other. Aldous Huxley
• Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. Jack Kerouac
• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Short Kindness Quotes

• Be Silly, Be Honest, Be Kind. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich
• Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. A. Milne
• A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
• Genuine kindness is no ordinary act, but a gift of rare beauty. Sylvia Rossetti
• The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. Andy Rooney
• A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward
• Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran
• Whatever point of view you have, there’s another. Jack Kornfield

• Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home. Kin Hubbard
• Our days are happier when we give people a piece of our heart than a piece of our mind. Unknown
• Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. C. A. Bartol
• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be. Don Van Vliet
• Be kind to everything that lives. Unknown
• A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. John Ruskin
• Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. Thomas Fuller
• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Rubin

Famous Kindness Quotes

• Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. J.K. Rowling
• No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. Dalai Lama
• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Be kind to one another. Bye, bye. Ellen DeGeneres
• I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way. Lady Gaga
• Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. Annie Lennox
• Be kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. Viggo Mortensen
• A cordial nature exaggerates a friend’s qualities with as much pleasure as a mischievous one finds in depreciating them. Marcel Proust
• That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. Simone de Beauvoir
• Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family. Mother Teresa
• One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. Jack Kerouac
• One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. Sophocles
• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. Albert Einstein
• When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• They are always saying God loves us. If that’s love I’d rather have a bit of kindness. Graham Greene
• I feel infinite sadness at seeing how few people are genuinely kind. Marcel Proust
• Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
• Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words. Sir Thomas More, Utopia
• 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
• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged. Benjamin Franklin
• When a cat flatters … he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness. Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations

Inspirational Quotes About Kindness

• He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. Dante Alighieri
• Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Saint Francis de Sales
• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• 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
• Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. R.J. Palacio, Wonder
• A moment of self compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. Christopher Germer
• Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.The Bible
• To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius
• The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. Graham Greene
• It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. Steve Maraboli
• I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don’t respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. Brendan Behan
• The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart. Dalai Lama
• Even if a few individuals simply try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community. Dalai Lama
• I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. Pearl S. Buck
• A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms. Og Mandino
• The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment. Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• What is kinder–to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance–or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable? Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
• When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot
• 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

Choose Kindness Quotes

• Everywhere you go, leave a glitter trail of kindness behind you. Unknown
• When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind. R.J. Palacio, Wonder
• Kind hearts are the gardens. Kind thoughts are the roots. Kind words are the blossoms. Kind deeds are the fruits. Kirpal Singh
• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales
• Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. Buddha
• The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. Hada Bejar
• You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. Publilius Syrus
• 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
• Remember you’re the one who can fill the world with sunshine. Disney, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much. Mother Teresa
• Over the years I’ve felt: Kindness, sure—but first let me finish this semester, this degree, this book; let me succeed at this job, and afford this house, and raise these kids, and then, finally, when all is accomplished, I’ll get started on the kindness. Except it never all gets accomplished. It’s a cycle that can go on … well, forever. George Saunders, Congratulations, by the way
• A clever person cannot be evil. A kind person is always clever. Improve your kindness by exercising your intellect, and improve your intellect by exercising your kindness and love. Leo Tolstoy

Quotes about Random Acts Of Kindness

• Perform a random act of kindness for someone: a smile, compliment, or a favor just for fun. These will multiply and spread very rapidly.  Steve Brunkhorst
• Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Bob Kerrey
• My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Maya Angelou
• Perform little acts of kindness ‘just because’, and watch how much better you feel about yourself. James Fullerton
• How good life is when one does something good and just! Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer

 Insightful Kindness Quotes

• The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. Henry David Thoreau
• 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
• Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect. Euripides
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. Thomas Carlyle
• Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. Joseph Addison
• A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. W. Somerset Maugham
• It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck

Kindness Quotes on Images

You may also like:

Simple Acts of Kindness | 52 Famous Compassion Quotes

The Power of Commitment | 155 Loyalty Quotes

101 Walt Whitman Quotes that Will Help You Re-evaluate Life

94 Quotes About Helping Others to Help You Restore Your Faith in Humanity