36 Inspirational Quotes on the Power of Kindness | I’m unsure how to articulate my feelings about what is currently happening in the world. I don’t have the answers; however, I firmly believe in the strength and power of kindness. And that’s where I will concentrate my tiny voice this month, “Inspirational Quotes on the Power of Kindness!”
Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, helpful, and considerate. And there is no doubt that it is one of the invisible global currencies of happiness, health, and success in all areas of life in this world we live in.
The Benefits of Kindness
Firstly, science shows that the benefits of kindness are greater for the giver than the receiver. When you are a kind person, you’re not only helping others, but you are helping yourself too.
The act of being kind releases a range of natural feel-good hormones in your body, including oxytocin and endorphins. Therefore, practising kindness and compassion can make you happier, boost your immune system, reverse the signs of aging, relieve pain, and even help you live longer.
Secondly, another significant benefit of kindness is its ripple effect, and kindness spreads both ways; in essence, the effects are often contagious. People who receive acts of kindness often end up spontaneously paying it forward and doing nice things for others.
The Power of an Act of Kindness
Kindness is not something that demands hard work or vast amounts of time. And knowing that the power of kindness and its benefits are immense for the receiver and ourselves. Imagine the effect on the world if everyone made just one intentional random act of kindness per day! Why wouldn’t we all want to practice kindness?
I hope you enjoy my “36 Inspirational Quotes on the Power of Kindness” and that you are inspired to help others and can be happy, too. While also doing your bit to help make this world a better place.
Paula x
Inspirational Quotes on the Power of Kindness
“No one is born hating another person…People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” – Nelson Mandela
“Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.” – Bo Lozoff
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”- Albert Schweitzer
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama
“Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.” – Og Mandino
“No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.” – Amelia Earhart
“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
“A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” – Og Mandino
“When words are both true and kind, they can change the world.”- Buddha
“A smile remains the most inexpensive gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.” – Og Mandino
“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
“You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.” – Publilius Syrus
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”- Anne Frank
“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.” – Confucius
“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
“One thing I do know for a fact is that the nicer we are to our fellow human beings, the nicer the universe is to us.” – Joe Rogan
“If you want to lift yourself up, lift someone else up.” – Booker T. Washington
“How would your life be different if… You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” – Steve Maraboli
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” – Wendy Mass
“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.” – Dalai Lama
“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” – Desmond Tutu
“Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can.” – Oprah Winfrey
“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” – Jesse Jackson
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” – R.J. Palacio
“One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.” – Sophocles
“I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.”- Pablo Casals
“Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.” – Barbara De Angelis
“When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.” – Harold Kushner
“Never be so busy as not to think of others.” – Mother Teresa
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