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Quotes About Kindness

They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
~ Saint Basil
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
~ Natalie Merchant
Whether or not you believe in God, you can probably sign on to the idea that being kind to others is divine. Just remember to include yourself in that circle of kindness.
~ Saul Bass
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
~ Princess Diana
It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.
~ Josh Radnor
Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
~ Bo Burnham
Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.
~ Mary Karr
To friends and eke to foes true kindness show; No kindly heart unkindly deeds will do; Harshness will alienate a bosom friend. And kindness reconcile a deadly foe.
~ Omar Khayyam
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
~ Gautama Buddha
Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.
~ Gen Urobuchi
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
~ Pema Chodron
It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
~ John Templeton
We are all interconnected in a web of kindness from which it is impossible to separate ourself.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
~ Graham Greene
Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.
~ Maria Montessori
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
~ Dale Carnegie
Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
~ Pierre-Jean de Beranger
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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
To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.
~ Betty Williams
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
~ Derren Brown