Top 200 Kindness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

52. “Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.”

— Jeff Bezos

53. “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

54. “Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.”

— Zig Ziglar

55. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

— Khalil Gibran

56. “Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?”

— Sathya Sai Baba

57. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

58. “Overcome the devils with a thing called love. ”

— Bob Marley

59. “Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.”

— Richard Branson

60. “Whatever the question, love is the answer.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

61. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”

— Lao Tzu

62. “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. “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

64. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

— Mother Teresa

65. “The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”

— Thomas Paine

66. “All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate. I choose love.”

— Johnny Cash

67. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

— Mark Twain

68. “Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

— Leo Buscaglia

69. “Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

70. “If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.”

— Lao Tzu

71. “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

— John Bunyan

72. “And you can always, always, give kindness.”

— Anne Frank

73. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

— Roald Dahl

74. “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

75. “What is done in love is done well.”

— Vincent van Gogh

76. “All you need is love.”

— John Lennon

77. “Compassion is a verb.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

78. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

79. “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

80. “Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

81. “Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.”

— Michael Jackson

82. “You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.”

— Nelson Mandela

83. “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”

— Mother Teresa

84. “This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

85. “Love people, not things; use things, not people.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

86. “The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.”

— Brian Tracy

87. “Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”

— Nhat Hanh

88. “Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

89. “Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”

— Buddha

90. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”

— Pema Chödrön

91. “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

92. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

93. “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

94. “May all that have life be delivered from suffering.”

— Buddha

95. “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”

— Mother Teresa

96. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

— Charles Dickens

97. “Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.”

— Swami Vivekananda

98. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

99. “Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.”

— Misha Collins

100. “Life is a gift from God, an unlimited series of opportunities to find the good in ourselves and others. There is good in everything, if we are willing to see it.”

— Alan Cohen