Random Kindness Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Leo Buscaglia

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

"Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Love, Inspirational, Life

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Khalil Gibran

Inspirational, Strength, Kindness

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Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Jack Canfield

Beauty, Kindness, Practice

Twitter post from Jun 01, 2013

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

"Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Inspirational, Stay Strong, Kindness

Cory Booker @CoryBooker, twitter.com. May 17, 2015.

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Seneca the Younger

Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness-both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Dawna Markova

Kindness, Believe, Doe

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You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

Kindness, Force, Accomplish

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People will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Life, Success, Peace

FaceBook post by Desmond Tutu from Jan 04, 2014

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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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

Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

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A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

Kindness, Spring, Compassion

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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Joseph Joubert

Love, Kindness, Women

"The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Success, God

"Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination". Book by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, 1988.

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Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

Future, Compassion, Suffering

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Harold S. Kushner

Change, Kindness, World

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