Top 200 Be Kind Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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2. “At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

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3. “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”

— Mother Teresa

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4. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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5. “My religion is kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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6. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

— Mother Teresa

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7. “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”

— Stephen Grellet

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8. “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.”

— Fred Rogers

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9. “In the end only kindness matters.”

— Jewel

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10. “Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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11. “Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”

— Henry James

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12. “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.”

— Maya Angelou

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13. “One thing will always secure heaven for us-the acts of charity and kindness with which we have filled our lives. We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

— Mother Teresa

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14. “The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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15. “The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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16. “Radiate boundless love towards the entire world – above, below, and across – unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.”

— Buddha

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17. “Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love.”

— Rumi

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18. “Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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19. “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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20. “Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

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21. “Leave people better than you found them.”

— Marvin J. Ashton

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22. “It is better to be kind than right.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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23. “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.”

— Deborah Day

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24. “When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.”

— Stephen R. Covey

25. “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

— Charles Darwin

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26. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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27. “Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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28. “Do not use the sharpness of your speech on your mother who taught you how to speak.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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29. “Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”

— Dale Carnegie

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30. “Charity is the root of all good works.”

— Saint Augustine

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31. “The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.”

— Confucius

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32. “Your pain may give laughter to somebody, but your laughter shouldn’t give pain to anybody.”

— Charlie Chaplin

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33. “If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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34. “Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love.”

— Rumi

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35. “We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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36. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

— Oscar Wilde

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37. “The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.”

— Mother Teresa

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38. “You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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39. “Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.”

— Ellen G. White

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40. “Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.”

— Mother Teresa

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41. “Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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42. “Kindness makes for much better teamwork.”

— John Wooden

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43. “Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”

— Adam Lindsay Gordon

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44. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”

— Jesse Jackson

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45. “Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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46. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.”

— Maya Angelou

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47. “Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.”

— Pope Francis

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48. “Not letting our mood affect the way we treat people is a forgotten sunnah.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

49. “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

50. “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”

— Paul the Apostle

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