Quotes About Kindness

"There are three ways to ultimate success:
The first way is to be kind.
The second way is to be kind.
The third way is to be kind."
—Mr. Rogers

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”—John Bunyan (Author of Pilgrim's Progress)

"One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone."—Shannon L. Adler

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

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

"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."—Amy Carmichael

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”—Scott Adams (Dilbert Comic Series creator)

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”—Mother Teresa

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

“You can cultivate mercy when you extend acts of compassion and kindness to yourself and to other people.”—Bree Miller

“You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.”—Patti LaBelle

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

"All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors--in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver."
—Mr. Rogers

“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”—Bob Kerrey

“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”—Joseph Joubert

“Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.”
—Andrew Iskander

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

“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

“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

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”—Sharon Salzberg

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

“As for…the fear that compassion will involve you in suffering, counter it with the realization that the sharing of sorrow expands your capacity to share joy as well. When you callously ignore the suffering of others, you lose the capacity to share their happiness, too.”—Albert Schweitzer

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

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”—James M. Barrie
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“Because that’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.”
—Andrew Iskander

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

“To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.”—Liz Armbruster

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”—Maya Angelou

“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous human to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.”—Aristotle

"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." —Mr. Rogers

"Love and success, always in that order. It's that simple AND that difficult." —Mr. Rogers

"Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're 'equally infinite.' Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too." —Mr. Rogers

"Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'—Martin Luther King Jr.

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."—Winston Churchill

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”—Robin Sharma

"True kindness, loving kindness, is selfless. Expects nothing in return." --Unkown