Top 315 Kindness Quotes

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‘weaknesses’; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

I’ve been humbled by the amount of people who have gone out of their way to reach out, mentor me on an ongoing basis, and devote time to help solve the problems Rent the Runway faces as a company – simply out of their own interest and kindness.

The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time … and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

And as I’ve gotten older, I’ve had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Authenticity, living your truth, kindness – these are necessary virtues.

It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth.

Being a family member is hard no matter where you are. It’s hard to be a kid. It’s hard to be a parent. It’s hard to be a brother or sister. It takes patience and kindness and forbearance.

One of the things that gave me most pleasure was a letter sent to me by Sebastian Vettel, written in his own hand, full of beautiful words and kindness. I wasn’t expecting this; usually, drivers don’t do this: they drive, and that’s it. But he is a beautiful person.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

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

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I’ve always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren’t just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

I grew up in Minnesota and everyone is so nice there. It is like Fargo. Everyone’s so chipper and you make friends just grocery shopping. We kill each other with kindness.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.

Sometimes people don’t trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won’t stand up for other people.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

Treat everyone with respect and kindness. Period. No exceptions.

Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself ‘Remember the purple sky’ when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

Some of the sexiest things to me in a man are confidence, authenticity, honesty, kindness and masculinity.

I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it.

Learn how to treat your vegetables with the love and kindness that they deserve.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don’t break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

Modern slavery is a barbaric crime. Each and every case is a both a tragedy and an affront to our values of decency and kindness.

Society tends to pin women against each other, but we need to treat each other with kindness and compliment one another instead. Because women’s voices are the strongest when they’re together.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The things I need from my husband and he needs from me are minimal – respect, support when needed, kindness, love.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

There’s no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

I don’t want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Passion and kindness are the most attractive qualities. Sense of humour is up there, but kindness becomes more important as you get older. You realise the funny, charming ones aren’t always the best people.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Love and kindness go hand in hand.

I’ve been inspired by some new people, I can say, from different companies and from just different walks of life, who’ve said so many beautiful and kind things to me. The very least I can do, is to do the same for others. Kindness begets more kindness. I want to see more of that.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That’s something worth achieving.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it’s being done to him or by him.

After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses – staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents.

As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I’ve approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.

The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.

You are not going to lift everybody out of poverty through the kindness of wealthy people.

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that’s what they really need. They’re misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

A lot of the men I’ve dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.

Firstly, I would say ‘kindness is free’ – we’ve all been on the receiving end of a smile from someone when you need it and it can work wonders. And secondly ‘take risks’ – sometimes the very thing you fear is actually what you need to do.