Kindness Quotes

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

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"We must serve the people with all our hearts."
Mao Zedong
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"We must combat selfishness and promote collective consciousness."
Mao Zedong
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"Kindness is impractical"
Joseph Stalin
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"Kindness strengthens bonds"
Joseph Stalin
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"Kindness is often mistaken for weakness by those who do not understand strength."
Vladimir Lenin
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"You make a living by what you get, you make a life by what you give."
Winston Churchill
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"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
Winston Churchill
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Kindness toward enemies is strategic only if it advances liberation."
Leon Trotsky
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"Kindness among comrades builds the foundation of lasting movements."
Vladimir Lenin
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Help others and you will help yourself"
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Kindness is weakness dressed in sheep's clothing."
Joseph Stalin
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"Kindness toward enemies is suicide."
Joseph Stalin
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The good man is the friend of all living things."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."
Mahatma Gandhi
"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
Nelson Mandela
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"We cannot live only for ourselves."
Nelson Mandela
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"No one is born hating another person."
Nelson Mandela
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"You are not obligated to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will hurt your enemy."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"A good person is someone who cares about the welfare of the entire world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that all men and women think differently and none are sure that they are wholly in the right."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
Winston Churchill
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see"
Jorge Edwards