Kindness is not just a virtue; it’s a cornerstone of a healthy, thriving work environment. In the fast-paced world of business, it’s easy to forget the profound impact small acts of kindness can have on our colleagues and teams.
This curated collection of kindness quotes serves as a poignant reminder of the power of compassion in the professional realm. Let’s take a moment to reflect on how we can integrate kindness into our daily interactions, fostering a culture of support, respect, and collaboration.
Share these insights with your colleagues and let’s elevate our workspaces together. Together, we can make a positive difference.
- Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most. Unknown
- Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. 14th Dalai Lama
- Kindness is wisdom. Philip James Bailey
- Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness. Sophocles
- Kindness is showing someone they matter. Unknown
- Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows. Robert Green Ingersoll
- Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused. Tommy Lee Jones
- Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
- Kindness and empathy is not weakness, it’s strength. Lex Fridman
- Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Teresa
- Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal
- The luckier you are, the nicer you should be, and the nicer you are, the luckier you’ll be. Morgan Housel
- What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The wonderful thing is that it’s so incredibly easy to be kind. Ingrid Newkirk
- There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. 14th Dalai Lama
- No matter how educated, talented or rich you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Vala Afshar
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales
- We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead. Roy T. Bennett
- 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
- A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi
- Never be so kind, you forget to be clever. Never be so clever, you forget to be kind. Taylor Swift
- The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. Henry David Thoreau
- Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. John Wesley
- It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn’t matter. Because I think it’s pretty much the only thing that matters. Josh Radnor
- When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou
- When words are both true and kind, they can change the world. Buddha
- My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. 14th Dalai Lama
- Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Saint Francis de Sales
- We rise by lifting others. Robert Ingersoll
- Being nice is a competitive advantage. Anthony Pompliano
- Men are cruel, but Man is kind. Rabindranath Tagore
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right. Haruki Murakami
- There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. Cicero
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Kahlil Gibran
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich
- We can disagree and still be kind to each other. Gary Vaynerchuk
- Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle. Ian Maclaren
- For it is in giving that we receive. Francis of Assisi
- It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer
- Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. Seneca
- Tenderness is a virtue. Oliver Goldsmith
- Be a little kinder than you have to. E. Lockhart
- How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! George Elliston
- Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Teresa of Avila
- Small acts of kindness add up, and in the end may save the world. Lex Fridman
- If you can be anything in this world, be kind. Caroline Flack
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare
- There’s no such things as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams
- Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter. Sam Altman
- Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joseph Joubert
- Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up. Jesse Jackson
- No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop
- A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. John Ruskin
- Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. Confucius
- A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. Thomas Carlyle
- Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
- The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. Hada Bejar
- Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. C. A. Bartol
- You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force. Publilius Syrus
- When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. Abraham Joshua Heschel