Looking for a sprinkle of inspiration or the perfect message for your next rock painting project? Look no further! We’ve refreshed our list of heartwarming kindness quotes just for you. These nuggets of wisdom are perfect for decorating painted rocks or any charming craft project, sure to brighten someone’s day.
What better way to spread kindness to others but by painting rocks with inspiring words!

This effortless gesture can put a smile on someone’s face with just a simple message on a rock. Kindness Rocks Project motto is “One Message at just the right moment can change someone’s entire day, outlook, life”. Megan Murphy, the founder of the Kindness Rocks Project started leaving messages and inspirational words on rocks and leaving on the beaches of Cape Cod to find and to make a difference in their life.
Finding my first painted rock brought a burst of excitement and happiness that I just had to share! Why not brighten someone’s day by giving them a painted rock with a cheerful message? It’s a simple way to add a little joy to their day, put a spring in their step, and warmth in their heart.
Let’s spread smiles together with painted rocks that inspire and bring us closer. Perfect for crafters of all ages, it’s a fun, creative way to connect and share the love. Join in the fun and see the difference a small gesture can make!
short kindness quotes – Perfect for Rock Painting
50 ways to be Awesome today! These short kindness quotes are perfect for your painted rocks projects.
- Be Awesome Today

- You are capable of amazing things
- Be the reason someone smiles today
- Do what makes your soul shine
- Laugh More
- Follow your bliss

- God knew my heart needed you
- Think Happy Thoughts
- Be Humble
- I am thankful
- I am grateful
- Live Laugh Love
- Be yourself
- Be silly. Be kind. Be honest.

- It’s cool to be kind
- I saw that – Karma
- Have faith in yourself
- Be your best self
- O.P.E. Hold On Pain Ends
- Cultivate Kindness

- Life is better when you laugh
- Seas the Day
- Be Kind
- Wherever you are, be all there – Jim Elliot
- Happiness is an inside job

- Good vibes only
- Be a Goal Digger
- Be Loved
- Embrace the glorious mess you are

- Dream Big
- Inhale Exhale
- You are loves and accepted
- Be real, not perfect
- You are your own rainbow
- Radiate Love
- Stay strong, good days ahead
- Create your own rainbow everyday
- Throw kindness around like confetti
- Hope is stronger than fear
- Find your hope
- Every Moment Matters

- Love Yourself
- You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing

- Enjoy the little things
- Be Strong
- The best is yet to come

- Happy as a clam
- Wild and free
- Start each day with a grateful heart

Encouraging quotes for the soul
40 encouraging kindness rocks quotes that will give you motivation and the drive to accomplish anything you put your mind to.

- Not all who wander are lost
- Just Breathe
- You got this
- Life’s a journey, not a race
- You are strong
- I think I can
- Life is what you make of it
- Be a little boulder

- Mistakes are proof that you are trying
- If you can dream, you can do it
- Say yes to new adventures
- Today I will be my own superhero

- If you create it, it will inspire
- Go after dreams, not people
- Never stop looking up
- Have faith in yourself
- Collect moments, not things

- Make today great
- Less talk more action
- Why be moody, when you can shake yo booty
- Don’t wait for an opportunity, create it

- The way to get ahead is to start now – William Feather
- There is time for everything – Thomas Edison
- Make today worth remembering – Zig Ziglar
- Do less with more focus
- Believe it to achieve it
- Don’t trade your authenticity for approval
- Do small things with great love
- The way you speak to yourself matters
- No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart
- Be you not them
- Don’t ever doubt your worth
- We rise by lifting others
- Be who you needed when you were younger
- It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- Small progress is still progress
- Your story isn’t over yet
- Never apologize for how you feel
- Kindness is powerful
Inspirational quotes for Teachers and kids
29 ways to show compassion and kindness to your teachers and friends. Let these uplifting words of kindness create small acts of kindness to make a big impact in each other’s lives.

- Readers are Leaders
- It takes a big heart to teach little minds
- May your coffee be strong and your students be calm
- The future of the world is in my classroom today – Ivan Welton Fitzwater
- Only the brave teach
- Teach Love Inspire
- Beautiful minds inspire others
- Learn something new
- Teaching is tough, but so are you

- Educator of mini humans
- Keep calm and teach on
- Kindness changes everything
- Have courage and be kind
- Stand up, speak out
- Be a voice, not an echo

- Teaching is love in its purest form
- No one should teach who is not in love with teaching – Margaret E. Sangster
- I teach therefore I am awesome
- Teachers light the way for others to find their own path
- Be a buddy, not a bully

- Strive for progress, not perfection
- Give them something great to imitate
- It’s rude to exclude
- Choose Kind

- Nice is contagious, pass it on
- Happiness is a habit, cultivate it – Elbert Hubbard
- Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going – Jim Rohn
- All things are difficult before they are easy – Thomas Fuller
- Treat others the way you want to be treated
Kindness Rocks Quotes for FAmilies to live by
21 ways to tell your family how much you love them. There’s nothing quite like encouraging the ones you love with kindness and compassion. Have fun and make memories together by painting quotes on kindness rocks.

- Have courage and be kind
- Family is where kindness begins
- Love make a family whole
- Love is the glue that holds families together
- In the embrace of family, kindness finds its true home
- Family is not an important thing. It’s everything. – Michael J. Fox
- Family is the heart of a home, where love resides, memories are created, and laughter never ends
- Family is where life begins and love never ends
- I love you a bushel and a peck

- It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life
- If you can dream it, you can do it – Walt Disney
- Do the right thing, even when no one is looking
- Where every act of kindness creates ripples of live

- No act of kindness, is ever wasted – Aesop
- Always remember, you are loved
- Always my mother, forever my friend
- Mistakes are proof that you are trying
- Tis easier to present bad habits than to break them – Benjamin Franklin
- A family’s love and support are the wings that give us the courage to soar
- A family is a little world created by love
- Family, where every stone of kindness builds a fortress of love
Inspirational words for Kindness Rocks
These 60 inspirational words are the perfect way to spread happiness on painted kindness rocks.
- Adventure
- Aloha
- Amazed
- Appreciate
- Believe
- Blessed
- Brave
- Breathe
- Courage
- Create
- Devoted
- Discover
- Dream
- Embrace
- Encourage
- Enough
- Faith
- Family
- Flawless
- Fly
- Friendship
- Forgiveness
- Glow
- Grace
- Graceful
- Gratitude
- Happy
- Heart
- Honest
- Honor
- Hope
- Humble
- Imagination
- Inspire
- Joy
- Karma
- Kindness
- Laugh
- Life
- Live
- Love
- Mindful
- Noble
- Peace
- Purpose
- Restore
- Seek
- Serenity
- Smile
- Soulful
- Sparkle
- Thankful
- Thrive
- Tranquil
- True
- Uplift
- Warrior
- Wisdom
- Wonder
- Worthy
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I hope you find this list of inspirational words and quotes helpful for your kindness rocks projects.
Want more rock painting quotes?
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Check out our coloring pages in our Printable Shop! Also, our post on 20 Kindness Quotes Coloring Pages for some free coloring pages.
In the meantime, if you are new to rock painting and don’t know where to start. Check out the Rock Painting for Beginners series below.
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