Kindness Quotes

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

23791 quotes

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"Being kind and forgiving should never be confused with weakness."
Jane Eyre
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"I have nothing to accuse him of."
Jane Bennet
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"Do not expose yourself to such unkind remarks again."
Jane Bennet
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"The kinder you've been in life, the nearer you are to Heaven."
Nelly Dean
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"Every human has the power to make another human happy by a simple act of kindness"
Lucie Manette
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"I would not be the means of injuring you."
Jane Eyre
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"Compassion has come to be with me as my daily garment."
Hester Prynne
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"The whole world is leavened with some charity."
Nelly Dean
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"Kindness is the greatest power."
Joe Gargery
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"A man may his own distress by sympathy with kin."
Ishmael
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"There are few things I would not do for those I truly care about."
Pip
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"A kind word spoken at the right moment can change a life."
Joe Gargery
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"Business cannot excuse neglect of civility toward anybody."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I see the good in others more clearly than I see it in myself"
Lucie Manette
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"Misery generates hate: these sufferings could not change me into such a monster."
Jane Eyre
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"No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so shallow as that of pretending to rejoice at what you have lost."
Jane Eyre
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"I nurse no resentment against those who are innocent of intention to offend."
Jane Eyre
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"She positively looks ill, and I cannot bear to see her in such a way."
Jane Bennet
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"Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe?"
Hester Prynne
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"I would rather be a slave to a kind master than to own slaves"
Mr. Rochester
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"I have learned to forgive where once I would have condemned."
Pip
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"She looked at the stranger with an air of quiet gentleness"
The Narrator
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"Shall I send this up to your room?"
Nelly Dean
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"To understand another person is to forgive them."
Pip
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"I hope that the day may never come when you will cease to be as kind to me as you have ever been"
Lucie Manette
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"Kindness is the only true gentility."
Joe Gargery
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"He's a human being, not an animal."
Cathy Linton
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"Compassion is not weakness."
Jean Valjean
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"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
Ishmael
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"Persuade her to go. That is the most sisterly thing you can do."
Jane Bennet