Kindness Quotes
Small acts. Big impact. These quotes make the case for compassion as a way of life.
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"A smile costs nothing, but it pays."Anatole France
"Kindness is weakness that society has learned to admire."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"We cannot understand another person until we stop judging them."François Mauriac
"Kindness is the highest form of intelligence."François Mauriac
"Given in Magnanimity are the most binding Obligations."Emily Dickinson
"Be kind, be kind, be kind."Henry James
"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."Henry James
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."Mark Twain
"We are all inhabitants of the same planetary sorrows."Herman Melville
"A kind word is often the key that unlocks a closed heart."Herman Melville
"Kindness is an art that requires constant practice and no final mastery."Herman Melville
"Each person is responsible for the tone they bring to the world."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Kindness is often mistaken for weakness by the foolish."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Kindness is a universal language."Romain Rolland
"Kindness echoes through eternity."Romain Rolland
"Charity is the height of nobleness, and none are truly great except the charitable."Anatole France
"There is nothing quite so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident."Anatole France
"When a man makes mistakes, he should be corrected with gentleness, not severity."Anatole France
"The principle of true courtesy consists in treating all people with the respect due to them."Anatole France
"Every act of unkindness creates ripples we cannot predict or control."François Mauriac
"The greatest gift we can give is our honest presence."François Mauriac
"Be kind, be kind, be kind. Kindness is the only thing that never fails"Henry James
"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see"Henry James
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others."Marcel Proust
"The best thing we can do is to make whoever we are talking with feel that he or she is the only person in the world."Marcel Proust
"We are never elevated by contempt of anyone."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A kind and gentle heart is an inestimable treasure."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Forgiveness is the highest form of human achievement."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A great soul serves everyone all the time."Romain Rolland