Kindness Quotes

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

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"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
Pearl S. Buck
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"If you understand each other you will be kind to each other."
John Steinbeck
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"Kindness costs nothing but enriches everything."
John Steinbeck
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"Kindness is the most underrated power."
William Faulkner
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"The world needs more kindness, not less."
Langston Hughes
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"Kindness echoes farther than you know."
Langston Hughes
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"Keep your eyes open and your heart even more open."
Ernest Hemingway
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"To be kind is more important than to be right."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks, then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I will seek out the good in all people and situations."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Whoever debases others is debasing himself."
James Baldwin
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"Not all of us can do great things, but we can all do small things with great love."
James Baldwin
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"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the human touch."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The noblest service comes from nameless hands and from hearts that seek no reward."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Sinclair Lewis
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
John Steinbeck
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"The death of any man diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."
John Steinbeck
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"It would be good if people would listen more than they speak."
John Steinbeck
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"Talking harmed no one that I ever knew."
Ernest Hemingway
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"Goodness is something to which the majority of people are indifferent."
Ernest Hemingway
"Know that you yourself, just as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
Theodore Dreiser
"Compassion is the greatest virtue of all."
Theodore Dreiser
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Every person has inside a basic decency and goodness."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Good manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others."
Pearl S. Buck
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"There's no one so bound to you as someone you've helped in his troubles."
Edith Wharton
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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
Edith Wharton
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"Every woman wants to be treated like she's unique."
Edith Wharton
"The test of one's decency is how much one is willing to give up for others."
Willa Cather