Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings

The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way.
Robert Alan

Let us be kinder to one another.
Aldous Huxle

There are many different ways we can show kindness to others, and it doesn’t have to be in a big way. The simplest of things may make the difference.
A Little Bit of Kindness

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.
Sophocles

Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
Kin Hubbard

Each small act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of the good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it is passed, until simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
Dean Koontz

Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
Harold Kushner

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one!
Marcus Aurelius

None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us.
Thurgood Marshall

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
Deepak Chopra

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Kindness is worth more than beauty.
Jean d Arras

Simple kindness to one’s self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all.
David R. Hawkins

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Chinese Proverb

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

There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
Father Dominique Pire

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.
Wilson Mizner

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Anonymous

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Meister Eckhart

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.
Richard Dehmel

Kindness has more power than compulsion.
Anonymous

You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!
Sasha Azevedo

I must be cruel only to be kind.
William Shakespeare

Kindness out of season destroys authority.
Sandi

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.
Anonymous

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
The Dalai Lama

He who feels no compassion will become insane.
Anonymous