Kindness Quotes

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."

Denis Waitley

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

Emily Dickinson

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

Goldie Hawn

"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles."

William Hazlitt

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

Washington Irving

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

J. M. Barrie

"How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!"

George Elliston

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

Eric Hoffer

"Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life."

Jackie Chan

"The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."

"Always be a little kinder than necessary."

J. M. Barrie

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."

Mother Teresa

"Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen."

Conan O'Brien

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

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

John Bunyan

"Saints are what they are, not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else."

Thomas Merton

"Kind words are the music of the world."

Frederick William Faber

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."

Jonathan Swift

"Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them."

Elvis Presley

"Power is the ability to do good things for others."

Brooke Astor

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."

Mother Teresa

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

Amelia Earhart

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."

Blaise Pascal