Kindness Quotes and Proverbs

Lao Tzu
Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. .

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch
If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give. .

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

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

Unknown
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Unknown
Through this toilsome world, alas!
Once and only once I pass;
If a kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do
To a suffering fellow man,
Let me do it while I can.
No delay, for it is plain
I shall not pass this way again.

B. C. Forbes
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives.

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