Kindness Quotes - Character Council

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

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”
-Audrey Hepburn

“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

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”
-Mother Teresa

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
-Philo

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”
-Washington Irving

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.”
-Albert Einstein

“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”
-Harold Kushner

“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.”
-Dolly Parton

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your modus operandi and change your world. ”

-Annie Lennox

“That’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.”
-Andrew Iskander

“The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.”
-Charles Kuralt

“Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.”
-James Freeman Clarke

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
-Phyllis Diller

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
-Robin Williams

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya Angelou

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
-Fred Rogers

“Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.”
-Alison Malee

“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.”

-Dolly Parton

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
-Audrey Hepburn

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
-Dalai Lama

“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way animals are treated.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
-Nelson Henderson

“Remember there is no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
-Scott Adams

“A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love.”
-Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

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

“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”
-Zig Ziglar

“Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.”
-Sally Koch