Kindness Quotes

Small acts. Big impact. These quotes make the case for compassion as a way of life.

23791 quotes

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"La bondad es la verdadera medida de la grandeza."
Benito Juárez
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"La bondad es más poderosa que la fuerza."
Benito Juárez
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"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not."
John Locke
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"That which constrains man to be benevolent is duty, not natural inclination."
John Locke
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"All humanity is bound together by mutual good will and sympathy."
David Hume
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"La bondad es la mejor forma de fortaleza."
José de San Martín
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"Nothing is more useful to man than man; nothing can be found in things more excellent for preserving being than that which is a man."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Pity is sadness born of love for what we imagine threatened with evil."
Baruch Spinoza
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"True greatness is measured by how one treats the powerless."
Benito Juárez
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"The foundation of respect is consistent moral action."
Benito Juárez
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"To feel much for others and little for ourselves is the perfection of human nature."
Adam Smith
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"Empathy is not a soft skill; it is the hard foundation of all human cooperation."
Adam Smith
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"All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, is, at any time of life, a despicable maxim."
Adam Smith
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"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society that by that alone one might determine all the cases in ethics."
John Locke
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"Compassion is the height of virtue and the foundation of all morality."
John Locke
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"True civility is the art of concealing our contempt."
John Locke
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"Kindness is the foundation of all morality."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Kindness is revolutionary in a world built on competition."
Peter Kropotkin
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"Every act of kindness is a blow against tyranny and despair."
José de San Martín
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"A kind act in wartime is more revolutionary than any battle."
José de San Martín
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"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."
Simón Bolívar
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"To respect others is to respect oneself."
Benito Juárez
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"The capacity for compassion is what separates civilization from barbarism."
Benito Juárez
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"To forgive does not mean to forget; it means to remember without hatred."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
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"Pettiness separates; breadth unites."
Emma Goldman
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"Kindness is the seed from which all virtues grow."
Emma Goldman
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"Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man."
Adam Smith
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"All for ourselves and nothing for other people is a vile maxim."
Adam Smith
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"The utility of one person may be a real improvement of the condition of another."
Adam Smith
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"Humanity is the virtue of a sympathetic nature."
Adam Smith