No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
- Audrey Hepburn
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
- Khalil Gibran
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
- Dennis Prager
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Stephen Grellet
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
- William Arthur Ward
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
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth
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
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Unknown
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
- Alexander the Great
Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.
- King Solomon
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.
- Ron Hall
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
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
The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.
- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
- Ellen DeGeneres
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
- Saint Basil
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
- Tommy Lee Jones
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
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
- Marcel Proust
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
- Lady Gaga
I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.
- Sofia Vergara
We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.
- Gail Honeyman
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
- Scott Adams
We should respect all religions and just believe in peace, kindness and harmony.
- Ananya Panday
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
- Alek Wek
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
- John Ruskin
Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
- Sophocles
The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
- Sarah Fielding
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
- Paul Bloom
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
- Judy Sheindlin
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert
There is but One God. His name is Truth; He is the Creator. He fears none; he is without hate. He never dies; He is beyond the cycle of births and death. He is self-illuminated. He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning; He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True. He is also True now.
- Guru Nanak
Working with Dudley Moore was so hilarious. I don't know how we got anything done because everybody was laughing so hard, but he was such a wonderful man, and he had a kindness and a musicality and a dearness to him that was triumphant.
- Liza Minnelli
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
- Samuel Johnson
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
You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.
- Dolly Parton
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
- Charles Kuralt
Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.
- John Gerzema
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
- Amelia Barr
It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.
- Nellie Bly
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
- Graham Greene
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
- Mother Teresa
Just imagine how different the world could be if we all spoke to everyone with respect and kindness.
- Holly Branson
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
It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
- Josh Radnor
Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.
- Dave Matthews
It's very important to choose kindness and stop bullying.
- Jacob Tremblay
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
- Oscar de la Renta
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Eric Hoffer
One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.
- Ezra Taft Benson
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
When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people.
- Jens Stoltenberg
I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.
- Allan Hamilton
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her - for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
- Queen Elizabeth II
Donald learned from a very young age that in order to survive in my family, he needed to be what my grandfather referred to as a killer, you know, somebody who had no weaknesses - in other words, kindness, generosity, sensitivity. So I think, over time, those qualities were systematically drilled out of Donald by his dad.
- Mary L. Trump
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
- Frank Herbert
First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.
- Brene Brown
You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
- Publilius Syrus
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
- Billy Graham
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
- Carol Burnett
Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
- Frank A. Clark
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
- Gerald Massey
I have long believed that there are fundamentally two forces or emotions that drive our decisions - love and fear. Love has its many manifestations: compassion, gratitude, kindness, and joy. Fear often manifests in cynicism, anger, jealousy, and anxiety. I worry that many of our communities are being driven by fear.
- Vivek Murthy
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
- Willa Cather
As citizens of this great nation, it is kindness, love, and compassion for each other that will bring us together - and keep us together. These are the values Donald and I will bring to the White House.
- Melania Trump
You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
- Captain Beefheart
My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life.
- Kate Middleton
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.
- Jill Biden
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
- Benjamin Franklin
If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.
- Betty White
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
- William Shakespeare
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.
- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
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
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Tennessee Williams
Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. Without those qualities he's no Prince Charming!
- Anne Hathaway
I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
- Carlos Santana
Kindness boggles my mind. It's the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
- Daniel Lubetzky
Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
- Laura Amy Schlitz
I think the only way to return my followers' kindness and show my appreciation for their support is to become a better actor - and to help people any way I can.
- Lee Min-ho
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
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
- Len Goodman
What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
- Richard Gere
Generosity and kindness always feel good to give, and it never feels good to give grief or negativity.
- Jason Becker
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama
I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.
- Liam Neeson
If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.
- Dustin Lance Black