With so much negativity in the world, it’s important to facilitate a learning environment that’s filled with love and care by promoting kindness in the classroom. Whether you decide to actively engage your kiddos in conversations about how to spread kindness, encourage random acts of tenderness, or adorn your walls with these quotes, there are so many ways that you can inspire learners to adopt a warm-hearted attitude. To help you get started, we’ve rounded up 80 kindness-inspired quotes!
1. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
2. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
3. “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
4. “Always be a little kinder than necessary.” – James M. Barrie
5. “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams
6. “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
7. “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
8. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth
9. “Kindness is spreading sunshine into other people’s lives regardless of the weather.” – Raktivist
10. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” – Kahlil Gibran
11. “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
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. “Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.” – Tommy Lee Jones
14. “Kindness is the ability to know what the right thing to do is and having the courage to do it!!” – Raktivist
15. “You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” – Publilius Syrus
16. “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart
17. “Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.” – Amelia Barr
18. “One can’t be kind to one person and cruel to another.” – Morarji Desai
19. “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
20. “A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.” – Washington Irving
21. “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin
22. “Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.” – Pope Francis
23. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” – Plato
24. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” – William Arthur Ward
25. “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
26. “Kind people are the best kind of people.” – Unknown
27. “Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude.” – Confucius
28. “Kindness is caring for others, even when they may not care for you.” – Raktivist
29. “Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” – Frank A. Clark
30. “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.” – Jackie Chan
32. “The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
33. “Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
34. “We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll
35. “Your greatness is not what you have, it’s what you give.” – Unknown
36. “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” – Mahatma Gandhi
37. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.” – Roy T. Bennett
38. “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.” – John Templeton
39. “Good words bring good feelings to the heart. Speak with kindness, always.” – Rod Williams
40. “You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.” – John Wooden
41. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
42. “Kindness is compassion and love in perfect harmony.” – Unknown
43. “Our days are happier when we give people a piece of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.” – Unknown
44. “Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
45. “How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it!” – George Elliston
46. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde
47. “Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.” – Joseph Joubert
48. “True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.” – Alek Wek
49. “To understand everything is to forgive everything.” – Buddha
50. “Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like.” – Unknown
51. “When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.” – Buddha
52. “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.” – Audrey Hepburn
53. “I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.” – William Penn
54. “Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.” – Kevin Heath
55. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” – Steve Maraboli
56. “Kindness is an investment that never fails.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine
57. “Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.” – Unknown
58. “We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.” – Gail Honeyman
59. “Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.” – Steve Maraboli
60. “Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle.” – Charles Glassman
61. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
62. “Choose kindness and laugh often.” – Unknown
63. “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
64. “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” – Amy Carmichael
65. “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
66. “You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” – Blaise Pascal
68. “Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin
69. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
70. “Always stop to think whether your fun may be the cause of another’s unhappiness.” – Aesop
71. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” – Jean Jacques Rousseau
72. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” – William Wordsworth
73. “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” – Mother Teresa
74. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
75. “In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.” – Flora Edwards
76. “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” – William Arthur Ward
77. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” – Anne Frank
78. “The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.” – John E. Southard
79. “The world is full of kind people. If you can’t find one, be one.” – Unknown
80. “Being kind is giving even when it seems like you have nothing to give.” – Raktivist
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