Kindness Quotes

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

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"Cruelty wounds the perpetrator most deeply."
Jean Racine
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"The greatest blackguard has some excuse."
Molière
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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
Molière
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"People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are."
Molière
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"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another."
Molière
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"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves."
Voltaire
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"Kindness is the language of the enlightened."
Stéphane Mallarmé
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"The true measure of a person is how they treat those from whom they can gain nothing."
Denis Diderot
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"The measure of our civilization is how we treat the weakest among us."
Denis Diderot
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"Kindness costs nothing but enriches everything it touches."
Pierre Corneille
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"Kindness is the most genuine form of power."
Pierre Corneille
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"Every man is born with the seeds of virtue within him."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Knowledge puffs up, but charity builds up."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Pity is natural to man; compassion is his greatest virtue."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"What wisdom can you find greater than kindness?"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"A person who will not forgive others breaks the bridge over which they themselves must walk."
Molière
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"To understand everything is to forgive everything."
Molière
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"The greatest gift we can give is our undivided attention."
Molière
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"Kindness echoes through time in ways we may never fully understand."
Jean Racine
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"To understand another's pain is to begin the healing of the world."
Jean Racine
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"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
Voltaire
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"The art of being a pleasant guest is to never push."
Voltaire
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"There is no such thing as a bad person; only a person with bad manners."
Voltaire
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"Kindness is radical and revolutionary"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Kindness echoes through eternity"
Arthur Rimbaud
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"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear."
Paul Verlaine
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"Kindness echoes through eternity."
Paul Verlaine
"The greatest charity is to allow others their dignity and choices."
Charles Baudelaire
"Kindness is the language spoken by the deaf and understood by the blind."
Charles Baudelaire
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"Kindness is the silent language of the heart."
Pierre Corneille