Quotes-Kindness

Kindness is a gift we can all give each other, no matter how rich or poor we are.  Kindness spreads to those around us as surely as a wildfire spreads during a drought.  Let's make the world a better place and infect it with kindness!

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." ~William Arthur Ward

"All who would win joy must share it, happiness is born a twin."

"Always be a little kinder than necessary." ~J.M. Barrie

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."  ~Sam Levenson 

"Audience of One." AO1 (Song title and slogan for many athletes.)

"Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody."

"Be the change you want to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people."

"Be the reason someone smiles today."

"Each day do more than you have to do-with a cheerful, positive outlook!  Give of yourself more than you've ever done before-knowing that your returns in life must  be in direct proportion to what you give."

"Every day we are called to do small things with great love."- Mother Teresa 

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone...

"Friendship isn't a big thing, its a million little things." ~Author Unknown

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” ~Albert Schweitzer

"I want to be the kind of person that kind people like and want to be like."  ~Jarod Kintz

"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away.  Try to lighten it." - Frank Tyger

"If you see someone without a smile, give him yours."

"If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of doing something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody." ~Malcolm Bane

 It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light, it scattered the night and made the day worth living." ~T. Scott Fitzgerald

“Kind hearts are the gardens,                                                                 Kind thoughts are the roots,                                                                        Kind words are the flowers,                                                                    Kind deeds are the fruits.                                                                              Take care of your garden                                                                       And keep out the weeds.                                                                           Fill it with sunshine                                                                              Kind words and kind deeds.                                                                    ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle."~Charles Glassman

"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see." ~Mark Twain

"Kindness is a wonderful way to let another soul know that there is still love in the world."

"Kindness is contagious."

"Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers." ~Kahil Gibran

"Kindness is more than deeds.  It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch.  It is anything that lifts another person." ~Plato

"Never worry about numbers.  Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you." ~Mother Teresa

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." ~Aesop (The Lion & The Mouse)

"No kind action ever stops with itself.  One kind action leads to another.  Good example is followed.  A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, 
and the roots spring up and make new trees.  The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves." ~Amelia Earhart 

"No one has ever become poor by giving." ~Anne Frank

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens

"Our Lord does not care so much for the importance of our works as for the love with which they are done." ~Teresa of Avila

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms."

"Speak with love and you will never regret what you say."

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

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world." ~William Gurnall

"There is no such thing as a "self-made" man.  We are made up of thousands of others.  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."~George Matthews Adams

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." ~Emerson

“To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” ~Josephine Billings 

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of  which have the potential to turn a life around." ~Leo Buscaglia

"True friends are the ones who have nice things to say about you behind your back."

"Use me, God.
Show me how to take
who I am,
who I want to be,
and what I can do, 
and use it
for a purpose
greater than myself."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." ~Jane Goodall

“You can’t help everybody, but you can help a few.  It’s that few that God will hold us accountable for.” ~Bob Pierce

“We are here on earth to do good for others.  What the others are here for I do not know.” ~W. H. Auden

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