One of the simplest things you can do in daily life to make it happier both for yourself and the people around you is to be kind.
And in today’s post I want to share 120 of the most inspirational, love-filled and positive short kindness quotes.
To give you motivation to be kind in small and bigger ways in your everyday life. To help you create a more positive world around you both at work and in your personal life.
And simply to make your day to day life a more joyful and enjoyable place to be.
Short and Inspirational Kindness Quotes
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
– Dalai Lama
“Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
– J.M. Barrie
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
– Lao Tzu
“If you can be anything in this world, be kind.”
– Caroline Flack
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
– Aesop
“Kindness gives birth to kindness.”
– Sophocles
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
– William Arthur Ward
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Kindness is always fashionable.”
– Amelia E. Barr
“Beauty lives with kindness.”
– William Shakespeare
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”
– Robert G. Ingersoll
“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!”
– George Elliston
“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
“The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.”
– Albert Einstein
“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
– Mother Teresa
“Kindness is wisdom.”
– Philip James Bailey
“Be a little kinder than you have to.”
– E. Lockhart
Short Kindness Quotes for Work and Co-workers
“Kindness makes for much better teamwork.”
– John Wooden
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
– Blaise Pascal
“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
– Arthur Ashe
“Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’”
– Zig Ziglar
“Be kind to people on the way up – you’ll meet them again on your way down.”
– Jimmy Durante
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
– Thomas Carlyle
“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.”
– Joseph B. Wirthlin
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“We can disagree and still be kind to each other.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk
“Candor is being direct in what you say. Kindness is being considerate in how you say it.”
– Adam Grant
“Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in life.”
– Mandy Hale
“Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.”
– Tommy Lee Jones
“Be nice to your co-workers. It feels nice and you’re more likely to get their help when you truly need it.”
– Unknown
“Being nice is a competitive advantage.”
– Anthony Pompliano
“It takes strength to be kind; it’s not a weakness.”
– Daniel Lubetzky
“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
– Theodore Rubin
“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.”
– Dennis Prager
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”
– Dave Barry
“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley
“If you do something with acceptance and kindness, you can create a true friendship.”
– Dustin Lance Black
Short Kindness Quotes for a Positive World and Life
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
– Dalai Lama
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
– Mother Teresa
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
– Margaret Mead
“Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time.”
– Ron Hall
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”
– Paulo Coelho
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.”
– Harold Kushner
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
– Desmond Tutu
“How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.”
– Morgan Freeman
“Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.”
– Bo Lozoff
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
– Anne Frank
“As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.”
– Caroline Kennedy
“Happiness is the new rich. Inner peace is the new success. Health is the new wealth. Kindness is the new cool.”
– Syed Balkhi
“Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place.”
– Jasmine Guinness
“The best part of life is not just surviving, but thriving with passion and compassion and humor and style and generosity and kindness.”
– Maya Angelou
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
– Edith Wharton
“One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”
– John F. Kennedy
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda
“Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.”
– Adam Lindsay Gordon
“Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.”
– Amit Ray
Short Kindness Quotes for Kids
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien
“It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.”
– John Templeton
“Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.”
– Aesop
“Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind.”
– Taylor Swift
“When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else. And it’ll become like a wildfire.”
– Whoopi Goldberg
“When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.”
– Jesse Jackson
“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.”
– Booker T. Washington
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
– Plato
“For it is in giving that we receive.”
– Francis of Assisi
“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The simple act of caring is heroic.”
– Edward Albert
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
– R.J. Palacio
“You’ve got to be kind.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Choose being kind over being right and you’ll be right every time.”
– Richard Carlson
“Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.”
– Stacy London
Short Quotes on Compassion and Acts of Kindness
“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.”
– Kent M. Keith
“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.”
– Brad Meltzer
“Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”
– Jackie Chan
“There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
– Princess Diana
“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.”
– William Wordsworth
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”
– Scott Adams
“A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.”
– William John Bennett
“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
– Steve Maraboli
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
– Frank A. Clark
“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now.”
– William Penn
“I’m a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.”
– Liam Neeson
“Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.”
– Bob Kerrey
“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves.”
– Pema Chodron
“Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree
“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world.”
– Sharon Salzberg
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”
– Mother Teresa
Short Kindness Quotes on Love and Respect
“What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. Love. We all lean towards love.”
– Richard Gere
“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
“Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.”
– Rumi
“People shouldn’t have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.”
– Maggie Stiefvater
“Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.”
– Barbara De Angelis
“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
– St. Basil
“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.”
– Dolly Parton
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
– George Sand
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
– Joseph Joubert
“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
– Samuel Johnson
“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
– David Mitchell
“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
– Sarah Fielding
“I have understood that the most important things are tenderness and kindness. I can’t do without them.”
– Brigitte Bardot
“Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever.”
– Thomas More
“The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.”
– Steve Brunkhorst
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