Kindness is quiet courage — a daily choice to soften the world right where we stand. It is strength wrapped in grace, warmth made visible. As Philip James Bailey wrote: “ Kindness is wisdom.”

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. ~ Lao Tzu

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ~ Mark Twain

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business life. ~ Samuel Johnson

Be kind to yourself, to others, and everything around you. ~ Alexandra Stoddard

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop’s Fables

You can’t assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior. ~ Katie Couric

Carry out a random act of kindness… someone, somewhere, might do the same for you. ~ Princess Diana

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. ~ Eric Hoffer

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance. ~ Pablo Casals

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Without kindness there can be no true joy. ~ Thomas Carlyle

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough. ~ Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. ~ Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness. ~ Leo Tolstoy

One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness — it is usually returned. ~ Cort R. Flint

That best portion of a good man’s life — his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~ William Wordsworth

The best memory is that which forgets nothing but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. ~ Persian Proverb