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36 Kindness Quotes

Kindness Quotes

Kindness Quotes

 


 

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

-Aesop

 


 

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

-Confucius

 


 

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

-Thomas Carlyle

 


 

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

-Mark Twain

 


 

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

-Buddha

 


 

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

-Jason Bateman

 


 

7. “Kindness gives birth to kindness.”

-Sophocles

 


 

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

-Plato

 


 

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

-Saint Ambrose

 


 

10. “Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.”

-Ron Hall

 


 

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

-Blaise Pascal

 


 

12. “People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that’s just the bottom line.”

-Ruben Studdard

 


 

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

-Lucius Annaeus Seneca

 


 

14. “I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.”

-Andie MacDowell

 


 

15. “Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.”

-Mencius

 


 

16. “Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter.”

-Sam Altman

 


 

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

-Kathryn Stockett

 


 

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

-Pope Francis

 


 

19. “I’m honest and fair, but I don’t dispense false kindness.”

-Steve Easterbrook

 


 

20. “Kindness is a sort of love without being love.”

-Susan Hill

 


 

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

-Anne Frank

 


 

22. “If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.”

-Douglas Coupland

 


 

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

-W. Somerset Maugham

 


 

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

-Dalai Lama

 


 

25. “Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.”

-Mason Cooley

 


 

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

-Brigitte Bardot

 


 

27. “Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.”

-Krista Tippett

 


 

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

-William Arthur Ward

 


 

29. “Everyone responds to kindness.”

-Richard Gere

 


 

30. “Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.”

-Eric Hoffer

 


 

31. “Love and kindness go hand in hand.”

-Marian Keyes

 


 

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

-E. Lockhart

 


 

33. “Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”

-Isaac Bashevis Singer

 


 

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

-James M. Barrie

 


 

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

-Roy T. Bennett

 


 

36. “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