The Most Inspiring Quotes About Kindness to Encourage You to Do More and Be More

Today is World Kindness Day, and it's an opportunity to celebrate the beauty of kindness. The World Kindness Movement initiated this annual celebration in 1998, and it now has members from more than 28 countries and representatives worldwide.

Let's make an effort to be intentionally and genuinely kind to others without expecting anything in return, not only today but every day of the year. The world needs ambassadors of kindness to create a cascade of unity and cooperation. We can inspire dozens, hundreds, and thousands more to do the same by being kind and spreading positivity. Let's pay it forward!

Here's a collection of the finest quotes about kindness to inspire you to do more for others and be more by doing so.

1.?“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

2.?"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Mark Twain.

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

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

5.??“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.”?Mother Teresa

6.??“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

7.?"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." Lao Tzu

8.?"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life." Samuel Johnson

9.?“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

10.?“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” William Arthur Ward

11.?“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

12.?"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." Franklin D. Roosevelt.

13.?“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

14.?"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." Amelia Earhart

15.?"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato

16.?“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”?Oscar Wilde

17.?“Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”?J.M. Barrie

18.?“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

19.?“Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.”?Gordon B. Hinckley

20.?“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show...let me do it now.”?William Penn

21.?“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”?Henri-Frédéric Amiel

22.?"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind." Malayan Proverb

23.?"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people." Abraham Joshua Heschel

24.?"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." Kahlil Gibran

25.?“Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.” Henry Burton

26.?“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.” Diana Spencer.?

27.?“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.” Saint Basil

28.?“Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.” Eric Hoffer

29.?"Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world." Jean Maalouf

30.?“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." Charles Dickens.?

What is your favorite quote about kindness? How will you be showing kindness to others today, tomorrow, and every day? Please share it in the comments section below. Thank you!!! @IvetteKCM