50 Kindness Quotes to Make the World a Better Place (2024)

Author Roy T. Bennett said, "Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people," in his book The Light in the Heart.

On The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah once said, "To extend yourself in kindness to anybody is an extension in kindness in the world."

The writer and leadership expert once tweeted, "Each person who delivers kindness stays with us forever."

In E. Lockhart's We Were Liars book, he wrote, "Be a little kinder than you have to."

"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now," novelist and poet Jack Kerouac said.

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important," Kathryn Stockett wrote in her book The Help.

Kahlil Gibran, a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist, wrote, "The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

The Dalai Lama has said: "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."

Novelist and poet Jack Kerouac wrote in his 1958 book The Dharma Bums, "One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about," author Wendy Mass wrote in The Candymakers.

"We can treat people with kindness," singer Harry Styles says in his song "Treat People with Kindness."

The singer once wrote: "Kindness is always in stock" in a Twitter post.

The former First Lady wrote, "Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses…swapped back and forth and over again," in her bestselling book, Becoming.

In his book Vanity Fair, novelist, author, and illustrator William Makepeace Thackeray wrote: "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

"In the face of isolationism, protectionism, racism—the simple concept of looking outwardly and beyond ourselves, of kindness and collectivism, might just be as good a starting point as any," said New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the United Nations General Assembly 2018.

"Every single time you help somebody stand up, you are helping humanity rise," Steve Maraboli wrote in Life, the Truth, and Being Free.

"Let us be kind. Let us be generous. Let us be full of grace. Let us see the light in all your people and be guided by that light for all our days," said Vice President Harris at the National Prayer Breakfast.

The entertainer said: "Awards are great, but really what makes me happy is making other people happy" at the 2016 People's Choice Awards.

Australian author Randa Abdel-Fattah wrote, "Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again," in her book Does My Head Look Big in This?