Kindness Quotes

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

23791 quotes

"To understand is to forgive."
André Gide
M
"We are dying from too many opinions and too little love."
Marcel Proust
J
"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"Compassion is the surest path to virtue."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A
"The only really original thing we can offer is our attention."
Albert Camus
J
"Generosity begins with the recognition of the independence of others."
Jean-Paul Sartre
S
"One cannot love oneself while hating one's own kind."
Simone de Beauvoir
D
"We are not put on this earth for ourselves alone, but are placed here for the whole community."
Denis Diderot
D
"If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open."
Denis Diderot
D
"The first sign of a noble soul is love for humanity."
Denis Diderot
J
"Natural compassion and commiseration are the only principles of human action."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"The gentle voice often carries the strongest message."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"A compassionate heart is worth more than a clever mind."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"A single act of kindness ripples through eternity."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
V
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do."
Voltaire
V
"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies."
Voltaire
A
"The most profound act of rebellion is simply to care for others."
Albert Camus
A
"Kindness is strength that has learned its own invincibility."
Albert Camus
J
"Generosity is the courage to help without knowing the outcome."
Jean-Paul Sartre
J
"Compassion without action is merely sentimentality."
Jean-Paul Sartre
M
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Montesquieu
D
"Every man has his share of dignity."
Denis Diderot
D
"Kindness is never wasted, always returned."
Denis Diderot
S
"Kindness without truth becomes complicity."
Simone de Beauvoir
J
"Real charity does not consist in alms, but in justice and benevolence."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
J
"Kindness is the language that transcends all barriers of custom and belief."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
P
"Kindness never goes unnoticed."
Pierre Corneille
P
"Kindness echoes through eternity."
Pierre Corneille
J
"Kindness is never wasted."
Jean Racine