“Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha
Collection
100 Kindness Quotes
A short introduction
Kindness quotes are easy to hang and harder to live. The good ones do not make kindness sound like a brand. They make it sound like a choice you can make in traffic, in a comment box, or in a kitchen.
This collection is a hundred lines from people who treated gentleness as strength — writers, teachers, and voices from religious traditions. You will find reminders about speech, about strangers, and about how we treat the people who cannot help us back.
If you are making a classroom print or a note to a friend, start here. Then add one specific kindness you actually intend to do. The quote is the spark. The act is the point.
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Kindness does not need a speech. It needs a next small deed. These quotes exist to point at that.
Read until a line reminds you of a specific person — a neighbor, a cashier, someone you were sharp with. Then do the small thing. If you want a classroom print or a note, generate a poster. Four designs. Keep the author. Share the one that would still be true if nobody liked the post.
100 quotes
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
Buddha
“Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.”
Buddha
“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
Buddha
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
Buddha
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.”
Buddha
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Buddha
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
Buddha
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
Buddha
“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
Buddha
“The root of suffering is attachment.”
Buddha
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
Buddha
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
Buddha
“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
Buddha
“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.”
Buddha
“What we think, we become.”
Buddha
“You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.”
Buddha
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
Buddha
“A jug fills drop by drop.”
Buddha
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Buddha
“An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.”
Buddha
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason.”
Buddha
“Better than a thousand hollow verses is one verse that brings peace.”
Buddha
“Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.”
Buddha
“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
Buddha
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
Buddha
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
“Give, even if you only have a little.”
Buddha
“Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease.”
Buddha
“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.”
Buddha
“He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads — such a monk gives up the here and the beyond.”
Buddha
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
Buddha
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
Buddha
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
Buddha
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.”
Buddha
“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
Buddha
“Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.”
Buddha
“Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind.”
Buddha
“Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.”
Buddha
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little.”
Buddha
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.”
Buddha
“Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.”
Buddha
“On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night.”
Buddha
“One moment can change a day, one day can change a life, and one life can change the world.”
Buddha
“Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.”
Buddha
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.”
Buddha
“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.”
Buddha
“Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him set his heart on it.”
Buddha
“Speak only endearing speech, speech that is welcomed. Speech, when it brings no evil to others, is a pleasant thing.”
Buddha
“The foot feels the foot when it feels the earth.”
Buddha
“The tongue like a sharp knife kills without drawing blood.”
Buddha
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
Buddha
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”
Buddha
“Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.”
Buddha
“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”
Buddha
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
Buddha
“True love is born from understanding.”
Buddha
“Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.”
Buddha
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.”
Buddha
“What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.”
Buddha
“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”
Buddha
“With our thoughts we make the world.”
Buddha
“Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”
Buddha
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”
Buddha
“As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not cling to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.”
Buddha
“Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.”
Buddha
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except yourself.”
Buddha
“Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.”
Buddha
“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”
Buddha
“Few among men are those who cross to the farther shore. The rest, the bulk of men, only run up and down the hither bank.”
Buddha
“If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
Buddha
“If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him.”
Buddha
“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.”
Buddha
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
Buddha
“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”
Buddha
“Let a man avoid evil deeds as a merchant, if he has few companions and carries much wealth, avoids a dangerous road.”
Buddha
“Let the wise man guard his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list.”
Buddha
“Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.”
Buddha
“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”
Buddha
“One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield.”
Buddha
“Patience is the supreme virtue.”
Buddha
“The greatest prayer is patience.”
Buddha
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Buddha
“There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disciplined mind.”
Buddha
“Those who cling to perceptions and views wander the world offending people.”
Buddha
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”
Buddha
“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
Buddha
“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.”
Buddha
“You only lose what you cling to.”
Buddha
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
Buddha
“A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.”
Buddha
“As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.”
Buddha
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.”
Buddha
“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”
Buddha
“From a withered tree, a flower blooms.”
Buddha
“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings.”
Buddha
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
Aristotle
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Socrates
“It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”
Nelson Mandela
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