55 Kindness Quotes That Will Make You Smile

A quote of kindness is a splendid thing indeed, or at least they lift my mood and make me smile. From short kindness quotes to quotes for kindness and respect, there’s bound to be something someone said once that will speak to you.

I hope you enjoy these quotes about kindness:

Quotes about Kindness

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.” ― Alek Wek

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” ―  Martin Luther King Jr.

“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

“Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it’s akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.” ― Josh Radnor

“Kindness and a good heart are the foundation for success in this life, progress on the spiritual path, and the fulfillment of our aspirations. Our need for them is not limited to any specific time, place, society, or culture.” ― Dalai Lama

“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, ‘yes, this is how I ought to feel.’” ― Harold Kushner

“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.” ― William Wordsworth

“Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.” —Wes Angelozzi

“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

“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

“Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.” —Cheryl Strayed.

“Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.” — Rebecca Solnit

“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.” —Abraham Lincoln.

“Loving-kindness and compassion are the basis for wise, powerful, sometimes gentle, and sometimes fierce actions that can really make a difference – in our own lives and those of others.” ― Sharon Salzberg

“The best way to show you care is to be present. The best way to help someone is to listen. The best way to be, is to be kind.” ― Maxime Lagacé

“We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.” ― Whoopi Goldberg

“In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.” ― Brian Tracy

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

“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

“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” ― Amelia Earhart

“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

“I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.” — Roald Dahl.

“With all of the bad things that are happening in the world right now, I think we need a message of togetherness and true unity. I believe that starts with personal reflection and then we can find kindness toward each other.” — Marielle Heller

Short Kindness Quotes

“We rise by lifting others,” ― Robert Ingersoll

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

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”― Plato

"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do." ― Anonymous

“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

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” ― Kahlil Gibran

“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” ― Paramahansa Yogananda

“Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” —Anne Herbert

“Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. ― Evelyn Underhill

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” —Steve Maraboli

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

“If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.” — Dolly Parton

“Genuine kindness is no ordinary act, but a gift of rare beauty.” ― Sylvia Rossetti

“For it is In giving that we receive.” ― Fracis of Assisi

“Kindness does wonderful things to a face.” ― Dixie Doyle

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one. ― Bill Gates

“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” ― Francis of Assisi

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

“As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartedness.” ― Alice Walker

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” ― Roy T. Bennett

“Loving yourself is healing the world.” ― Jaymie Gerard

“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life. — Jackie Chan

“A kind word is like a spring day.” — Russian proverb

”No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — AESOP

“The simple act of caring is heroic.” ― Edward Albert

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” ― Desmond Tutu

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

”You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” — Pubilius Syrus

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” — Dalai Lama

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” — Blaise Pascal