50 Best Kindness Quotes and Sayings

1. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”

– Maya Angelou

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

– Aesop

3. “You can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”

– Anne Frank

4. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

– Dalai Lama

5. “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

6. “Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

– Blaise Pascal

7. “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

– Dr. Seuss

8. “Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

– Ashleigh Brilliant

9. “We rise by lifting others.”

– Robert Ingersoll

10. “If you see someone without a smile, give them yours.”

– Dolly Parton

11. “How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!”

– George Elliston

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

– Jesse Jackson

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. “Everywhere you go, leave a glitter trail of kindness behind you.”

– Unknown

15. “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”

– A.A. Milne

16. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

– Lao-Tzu

17. “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

– Unknown

18. “As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

19. “A kind word is like a Spring day.”

– Russian Proverb

20. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

– Booker T. Washington

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

– Mother Teresa

22. “Kind people are the best kind of people.”

– Unknown

23. “Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.”

– Amelia Barr

24. “Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.”

– Tommy Lee Jones

25. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”

– William Arthur Ward

26. “Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

– Confucius

28. “No one has ever become poor by giving.”

– Anne Frank

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

– Plato

30. “Be a little kinder than you have to.”

– E. Lockhart

31. “Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers.”

– Kahlil Gibran

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

– Theodore Isaac Rubin

33. “A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”

– Thomas Carlyle

34. “All I’m saying is, kindness don’t have no boundaries.”

– Kathryn Stockett

35. “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”

– Roy T. Bennett

36. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

– Kahlil Gibran

37. “It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn’t matter. Because I think it’s pretty much the only thing that matters.”

– Josh Radnor

38. “Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.” 

– Pope Francis

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

– Mark Twain

40. “Kindness gives birth to kindness.”

– Sophocles

41. “Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.”

– Roy T. Bennett

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

– Buddha

43. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”

– Blaise Pascal

44. “I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.”

– Brigitte Bardot

45. “Always be a little kinder than necessary.”

– James M. Barrie

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

– Annie Lennox

47. “I don’t worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.”

– Jason Bateman

48. “When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.”

– W. Somerset Maugham

49. “A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.”

– Saint Ambrose

50. “The kindness that’s been shown to me, by doctors as well as my family and my friends, it’s really saved my life.”

– Lady Gaga