Top 200 Kindness Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

102. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.”

— C. S. Lewis

103. “I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.”

— Ram Dass

104. “Let’s do something beautiful for God.”

— Mother Teresa

105. “Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.”

— Thomas S. Monson

106. “Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

107. “Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic.”

— Stephen R. Covey

108. “Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.”

— Pema Chödrön

109. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.”

— Khalil Gibran

110. “Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”

— Conan O'Brien

111. “Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Thich Nhat Hanh

113. “Let our New Year’s resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.”

— Goran Persson

114. “The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them.”

— Louis C.K.

115. “How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”

— Morgan Freeman

116. “Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.”

— Roald Dahl

117. “If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve.”

— Mother Teresa

118. “Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.”

— Mother Teresa

119. “People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

120. “Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

121. “We know that from time to time there arise among human beings people who seem to exude love as naturally as the sun gives out heat.”

— Alan Watts

122. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”

— Anne Frank

123. “Choose people who lift you up.”

— Michelle Obama

124. “Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

125. “Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

126. “When you see your happiness in the happiness of others, that’s when you will be truly happy.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

127. “Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.”

— Mother Teresa

128. “Begin with praise and honest appreciation.”

— Dale Carnegie

129. “No one has ever become poor by giving.”

— Anne Frank

130. “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

131. “We are at our finest when we take care of each other.”

— Katherine Center

132. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”

— Albert Schweitzer

133. “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent van Gogh

134. “Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!”

— Buddha

135. “Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what’s happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.”

— Deepak Chopra

136. “A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”

— Joseph Joubert

137. “God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”

— Billy Graham

138. “The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.”

— Walt Whitman

139. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.”

— Max Lucado

140. “Compassion is not a virtue – it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have – it’s something we choose to practice.”

— Brené Brown

141. “Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

142. “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

— Charles Dickens

143. “Do all things with love.”

— Og Mandino

144. “Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.”

— Dale Evans

145. “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

146. “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.”

— Cheryl Strayed

147. “If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.”

— Maya Angelou

148. “Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

149. “Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

— William Arthur Ward

150. “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.”

— Amelia Earhart