“When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.”
Abraham Joshua Heschel

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

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”
Jesse Jackson

“Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you – not because they are nice, but because you are.”
Author Unknown

“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

“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
Blaise Pascal

“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Dalai Lama

“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.”
Harold Kushner

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”
Henry James

“Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profundity.
Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao-Tse

“Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.”
Marc Estrin

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

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.”
Theodore Rubin

“The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.”
William Wordsworth

“A kind word is like a Spring day.”
Russian Proverb

“Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.”
Author Unknown

“Love someone who doesn’t deserve it.”
Author Unknown

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

“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
James M. Barrie

“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.”
Margaret Cho

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop

“Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you’ll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.”
Louis Auchincloss

“Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.”
Samuel Johnson