Kindness Quotes

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

23791 quotes

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"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Don Quixote
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"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"True nobility is of the heart."
Edmond Dantès
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"You don't mind me, do you?"
Joe Gargery
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"The greatest virtue is patience combined with kindness."
Don Quixote
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"The most powerful weapon is kindness."
Don Quixote
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"I pity thee, for the good that has been wasted in thy nature!"
Hester Prynne
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"Forgiveness is the greatest virtue."
Sonya
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"The poor deserve our compassion."
Sonya
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"Forgive yourself first."
Sonya
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"Every act of love is a work of peace, however small."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The measure of a person's character is how they treat those beneath them."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The greatest gift we can give is our attention."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Kindness is the only thing that survives and persists."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Wouldst thou avenge thyself on the innocent babe?"
Hester Prynne
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"Kindness costs nothing but means everything."
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before anything else, you may be sure he is a good man."
Raskolnikov
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"The soul is healed by making others happy."
Sonya
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"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"There is no greater happiness than to pardon when you have the power to punish."
Mercédès
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"I have learned that there is more kindness in the world than cruelty."
Mercédès
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"I wish I could say anything to comfort you; but it is wholly out of my power."
Jane Bennet
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"I do not believe I have ever heard you speak ill of any human being at all."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am not one of those ladies who can see a man suffer without taking pity on him."
Charlotte Lucas
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"Thou wilt forgive me!—wilt thou not?"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The kindest words cost nothing yet purchase much."
Sancho Panza
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"The soul is healed by making others happy."
Sonya
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"Forgiveness is the most powerful of all medicines."
Sonya
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"Pity is akin to love."
Haydée
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"Forgiveness is not the absence of anger but the choice to love despite it."
Natasha Rostova