Kindness Quotes

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Mary Anne Radmacher
“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”
Mary Anne Radmacher

Steve Maraboli
“Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Steve Maraboli
“I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined by what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Steve Maraboli
“When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Amit Ray
“Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.”
Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

Dean Koontz
“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.”
Dean Koontz, From the Corner of His Eye

Steve Maraboli
“Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Service is a smile.  It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug.   It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Jonathan Safran Foer
“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
Jonathan Safran Foer

Steve Maraboli
“Search for contentment in each person you meet.”
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Plato
“Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.”
Plato

Samuel Johnson
“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3

Enid Blyton
“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”
Enid Blyton, House at the Corner

William Shakespeare
“He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.”
William Shakespeare, Henry V

Lewis Richmond
“Practice kindness - particularly when you feel irritated or things are not going well. Kindness hardly ever goes wrong.”
Lewis Richmond, Work as a Spiritual Practice: A Practical Buddhist Approach to Inner Growth and Satisfaction on the Job

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“If someone doesn't care to accept you, respect you, believe in you, don't hesitate to move on and let them go. There are many who love and appreciate you just the way you are.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

Munia Khan
“Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind”
Munia Khan

C. Toni Graham
“Do not get discouraged. Don’t shrug off your dreams because of the setbacks. Aspirations are not like perspiration, they will not evaporate unless you allow it.”
C. Toni Graham

Shannon Hale
“They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. ”
Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

Linda Olsson
“But once you accept the fact that you have always been alone, and will always be, then your perspective can begin to change. You can become aware of the small kindnesses, the little comforts. Be grateful for them.”
Linda Olsson, Astrid and Veronika

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Shannon L. Alder
“A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.”
Shannon L. Alder

Rick Riordan
“I will tell you a secret, Andiron said. When I whispered into that well, I made a wish. I wanted to be as kind and as good as you, brother. You are perfect.”
Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead

“Beauty in its best form is kindness, the most valuable currency in the world.”
Rebecca McNutt, Bittersweet Symphony