Kindness Quotes

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

23791 quotes

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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
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"We cannot understand another person until we stop judging them."
François Mauriac
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"Kindness is the highest form of intelligence."
François Mauriac
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"Given in Magnanimity are the most binding Obligations."
Emily Dickinson
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"Be kind, be kind, be kind."
Henry James
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"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
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"We are all inhabitants of the same planetary sorrows."
Herman Melville
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"A kind word is often the key that unlocks a closed heart."
Herman Melville
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"Kindness is an art that requires constant practice and no final mastery."
Herman Melville
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"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
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"Charity is the height of nobleness, and none are truly great except the charitable."
Anatole France
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"There is nothing quite so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident."
Anatole France
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"When a man makes mistakes, he should be corrected with gentleness, not severity."
Anatole France
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"The principle of true courtesy consists in treating all people with the respect due to them."
Anatole France
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"Every act of unkindness creates ripples we cannot predict or control."
François Mauriac
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"The greatest gift we can give is our honest presence."
François Mauriac
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"Be kind, be kind, be kind. Kindness is the only thing that never fails"
Henry James
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"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
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"The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others."
Marcel Proust
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"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
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"We are never elevated by contempt of anyone."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A kind and gentle heart is an inestimable treasure."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Forgiveness is the highest form of human achievement."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A great soul serves everyone all the time."
Romain Rolland