Top 100 Kindness Giving Quotes
#1. Kindness,giving your all,and not expecting anything in return
Mark
#2. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining, and intimacy.
Marianne Williamson
#3. To be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.
Agnes Repplier
#4. The secret to enlightenment is kindness and selfless giving. Without that, it's just words, isn't it?
Frederick Lenz
#5. If we give someone a piece of bread and butter, that's kindness, but if we put jelly or peanut butter on it, then it's Loving Kindness.
Barbara Johnson
#6. A smile is the most affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. Courtesy gives its owner a passport round the world. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends.
James Thomas Fields
#8. Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.
Peter S. Beagle
#9. A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin - seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too.
James Stewart
#11. The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.
David Dunn
#12. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
Steve Maraboli
#14. Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others.
Miya Yamanouchi
#15. The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
Sallust
#16. True kindness is not necessarily giving something to someone who is down, but showing them that they still have something to give to get back up.
Charles F. Glassman
#17. Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
#18. The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.
Bob Kerrey
#20. Every act of kindness and compassion toward others gets multiplied when they, in turn, pass it on. One by one the world becomes a better place. Service is indeed the gift that keeps on giving.
Joan Z. Borysenko
#21. Love lifts you up. Love is giving and kindness. Love is encouraging. Love is healing. If these things do not surround you, you are in the wrong relationship.
Elizabeth Bourgeret
#22. You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.
Anonymous
#23. Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.
Simon Cowell
#25. If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.
Barbara Kingsolver
#26. When He gives, He shows you His Kindness; when He deprives, He shows you His power. And in all that, He is making Himself known to you and coming to you with His gentleness.
Ibn Ata Allah
#27. And you can always, always, give kindness
Anne Frank
#28. No one has ever become poor by giving.
Anne Frank
#29. By giving away with kindness, you get it back with greatness.
Debasish Mridha
#30. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. Mindfulness gives you time. Time gives you choices. Choices, skillfully made, lead to freedom. You don't have to be swept away by your feeling. You can respond with wisdom and kindness rather than habit and reactivity.
Henepola Gunaratana
#32. Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.
Steve Maraboli
#33. Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.
Vironika Tugaleva
#34. Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
Shannon L. Alder
#35. Love is the giving from the heart
Without expecting any return.
Love is the sharing the beauty of life
Without expecting any charm or joy
Love is the caring with kindness
Without knowing caring is the joy.
Debasish Mridha
#36. They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way and I understood not only how entirely generous they were but also that generosity might be the greatest pleasure there is.
William Maxwell
#37. A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving.
Balroop Singh
#38. Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.
Gautama Buddha
#39. By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.
Bryant McGill
#40. Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
Katharine Hepburn
#42. My mother had a kindness
that embraced all life.
She knew her place well
and was comfortable in giving everything she had.
This is the tradition of native women.
Dan George
#43. I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
Alan Cohen
#44. The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
Ajahn Brahm
#45. Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.
Roy T. Bennett
#47. Respect is that great spirit of good, which creates the beautiful space giving all souls the simple room to breathe.
Bryant McGill
#49. Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. It does not matter how other people treat you. That is their lookout. The only real thing is how you treat them. Give love out, but do not worry and expect any in return, and you will be happy and contented.
Evalyn Walsh McLean
#51. I believe in giving kindness, regardless of how unreasonable and self-centered a person is. Kindness is a gift of sanctity for a person. It has the goal of making the soul smile.
Lionel Suggs
#52. Make no mistake about it, no matter how kind, meek, humble and soft your giving heart is - you are a warrior!
Bryant McGill
#53. Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.
George Alexiou
#54. Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.
Amit Ray
#55. Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.
George Alexiou
#56. It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
Juvenal
#58. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
Douglas Coupland
#61. No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.
Catherine Marshall
#62. First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.
Christopher Dines
#63. It's through giving that we receive; it's through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased!
Wayne W. Dyer
#64. What's always right?" "Kindness," Pitt answered with certainty. "Keeping your promises. Not giving up just because it gets hard. Owning up to your mistakes, and not blaming other people even if you would get away with it.
Anne Perry
#65. Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family.
Mother Teresa
#66. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
Brian Tracy
#67. Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
Maimonides
#68. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#70. Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again.
Debasish Mridha
#72. It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
Roy Bennett
#74. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
Sharon Salzberg
#75. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!
Anne Frank
#76. Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.
Julian Baggini
#77. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
#79. Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.
John Ruskin
#80. You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#81. Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Sophocles
#83. Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#84. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#85. Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.
Louis C.K.
#86. I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.
Leigh Anne Tuohy
#87. It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation
to force the esteem of others
seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#88. Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu
#89. I lived in the city of light for 4 years 10 months, the generosity of sacred souls sustain my livelihood.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#90. You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.
CARLOS H. AMADO
#92. Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simplest ways, for example, by giving someone a hug. I send you a hug!
Paul J. Zak
#93. In her experience it was very difficult to offer a man affection and kindness without giving him the impression you were also offering a lay.
Joe Hill
#94. Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love- Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
#95. Giving kindness does as much good as receiving it ... Kind people are healthier and live longer.
Piero Ferrucci
#96. Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.
Michael Holbrook
#97. You are not the clouds or even the blue sky where clouds live. You are the sun behind them, giving light to all, and the sun is made up of goodness and kindness and light.
Francisco X Stork
#98. Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#100. Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.
Suzy Kassem
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