Kindness Quotes

The worst have scraped out the mantle of the best and wear it around as something real. It takes no genius to see that. But I moved to San Francisco because the masquerade of kindly gestures is, at least, kind. And it remains kind. And all the people who would sit back and comment on the garishness of the costumes, the hollowness of the dialogue, the lack of divine conviction, well, all those people are either dead or fifteen years old.

~ Jay Caspian Kang

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

~ Maud Hart Lovelace

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The person who is rich is the one who possess kindness, caring, help others when needed, gives things that money can't buy, and spend time with those who need someone to listen to their stories. Sometimes money isn't needed.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.

~ Bob Kerrey

I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn’t.

~ Roz Savage

I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only fair that others enjoy the same right I demand for myself – not to be disturbed – and also because I think that the world doesn’t need more than the natural evils it already has. All of us in this world are living on board a ship that is sailing from one unknown port to another, and we should treat each other with a traveller’s cordiality. Not to do good, because I don’t know what good is, nor even if I do it when I think I do. How do I know what evils I generate if I give a beggar money? How do I know what evils I produce if I teach or instruct? Not knowing, I refrain. And besides, I think that to help or clarify is, in a certain way, to commit the evil of interfering in the lives of others. Kindness depends on a whim of our mood, and we have no right to make others the victims of our whims, however humane or kind-hearted they may be. Good deeds are impositions; that’s why I categorically abhor them.

~ Fernando Pessoa

May my thoughts of kindness stretch over like a warm blanket to envelop your being and caress your soul.

~ Truth Devour

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness don't have no boundaries.

~ Kathryn Stockett

Aa is for animals, friends, not food. We don't eat our friends. They would find it quite rude!

~ Ruby Roth

If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

The greatest gift that you can give to others is kindness.

~ M. Howson

You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.

~ Elizabeth Brundage

One of the nicest things you can do is to speak kind words about someone behind his or her back.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or indifferent by an excess of happiness. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Happiness should be a means of accomplishment, like health, not an end in itself.

~ Helen Keller

A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live.

~ Dan Pearce

I have known a lot of people in my life, and I can tell you this… Some of the ones who understood love better than anyone else were those who the rest of the world had long before measured as lost or gone. Some of the people who were able to look at the dirtiest, the poorest, the gays, the straights, the drug users, those in recovery, the basest of sinners, and those who were just… plain… different.They were able to look at them all and only see strength. Beauty. Potential. Hope.And if we boil it down, isn’t that what love actually is?

~ Dan Pearce

Kindness always leaves a timeless deposit on the heart.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Speaking kind words starts a wave of love in motion that brings more love upon your shores.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

When you want your message to be heard, always speak from your heart.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Spread LOVE and KINDNESS wherever you go. Then you can be sure you are never far from it!

~ Molly Friedenfeld

It is not only me devoted to your kindness and beauty; walk in the gardens, you will find birds singing your name.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

~ John Milton

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

~ Anna Sewell

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness. - Carline

~ Raymond E. Feist

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it.It attacks tenaciously,directly,personally; it debates,criticizes,shames and challenges.From the outset it draws the line of battle, and I was on other side.

~ Jeffrey Lang

Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness

~ Nikki Rosen

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

~ Jeffrey Lang

I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We need to learn to dance more softly.

~ Nikki Rosen

Life works on the same principle as a boomerang. It's simple, really—what you send out you get back. A smiling face receives many smiles. Friendliness finds itself surrounded by friends. Giving hugs creates hugs. Offered help is reciprocated. In contrast, if you hurt people you will find much hurt in your life. Unkindness begets unkindness. Misery begets misery. A dour face will receive many sour looks in response. That said, it is easy to understand that if you want a happy life you must contribute to the happiness of those around you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are or they aren’t.

~ Laura Anderson Kurk