Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

Explore reflections that celebrate kindness as a guiding value and a cornerstone of strong character. These quotes highlight empathy, patience, and the quiet strength found in everyday acts of care. Use them to inspire small gestures, shape mindful habits, and encourage respectful choices at home, work, and in community life. Whether you seek motivation to lead with compassion or reminders to be gentle with yourself, these concise lines offer steady encouragement and practical clarity.

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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own"

Ben Sweetland, Author

Ben Sweetland

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength"

Saint Francis de Sales, Clergyman

Saint Francis de Sales

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"Its not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

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

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"If you have been brutally broken but still have the courage to be gentle to other living beings, then you're a badass with a heart of an angel"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

Keanu Reeves

"Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength"

Dalai Lama, Leader

Dalai Lama

"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

George Herbert, Poet

George Herbert

"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity"

Anne Baxter, Actress

Anne Baxter

"The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

Leonard Nimoy

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters"

Evander Holyfield, Athlete

Evander Holyfield

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

Oscar Wilde

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

Audrey Hepburn

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down"

Jimmy Durante, Comedian

Jimmy Durante

"After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world"

Bertha von Suttner, Novelist

"A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice"

John Templeton, Businessman

"The simple act of caring is heroic"

Edward Albert, Actor

"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth"

Wilfred Grenfell, Activist

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity"

Saadi, Poet

Saadi

"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Do all things with love"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"You was a good man, and did good things"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

Thomas Hardy

"Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand"

Patti Smith, Musician

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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