Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings

A word of kindness is better than a fat pie.
Russian proverb

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
Jesse Jackson

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joy of others.
André Gide

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope

One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Proverb

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.
S. H. Simmons

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
Anonymous

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
Confucius

In the sick room, ten cents’ worth of human understanding equals ten dollars’ worth of medical science.
Martin H. Fischer

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Chinese Proverb

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius

The best portion of a good man’s life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth

It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.
Anonymous

Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles

Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.
Ashleigh Brilliant

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
Mark Twain

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
Dalai Lama

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles H. Spurgeon

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
French Proverb

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
Philip James Bailey

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

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
Cicero

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