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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away."
-- Sir Arthur Helps (1813-1875), English writer and essayist

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair." ~~ Brian Tracy

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
-- Washington Irving (1783–1859), American author

"As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."
-- Albert Schweitzer

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
-- Mother Teresa

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
-- Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"Don't wait for people to be kind. Show them how."
-- Author Unknown

"Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on!
'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on!
Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Till in Heaven the deed appears--Pass it on!"
--Henry Burton

"I have wept in the night
For the shortness of sight
That to somebody's need made me blind;
But I never have yet
Felt a tinge of regret
For being a little too kind.
-- Anonymous

"The kinder and more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he/she can find in other people."
-- Tolstoy

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
-- Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

"Kindness is like fresh-fallen snow; it makes beautiful everything that it covers."
-- Anonymous

"Kindness is something that we must own and extend to ourselves, before we are able to extend it to others. When we do this, we do not determine whether someone deserves our kindness ... it is simply something we do because it has become our nature to be kind."
-- Gail Pursell Elliott

"Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known."
-- Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin, Ensign, May 2005, 26

"Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain." Charles Fenno Hoffman (1806-1884), poet

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and philosopher

"One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness -- it is usually returned."
-- Cort R. Flint, author (1915-1983)

"Our small efforts at kindness can change people's lives more than we will ever know. Since it takes so little time and energy to change the world for the better, why not make an effort to do it every day?"
-- Pat Williams

"Perhaps the world little notes nor long remembers individual acts of kindness -- but people do."
-- Herm Albright (1876-1944)

A web page full of great inspirational quotes about kindness.

"It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives to us character and prestige. Seeds of kindness, goodwill, and human understanding, planted in fertile soil, spring up into deathless friendships, big deeds of worth, and a memory that will not soon fade."
-- George Matthew Adams

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
-- Oscar Wilde

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

"Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true."
-- Robert Brault