Kindness Quotes

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

23791 quotes

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"The soul is healed by making others happy"
Sonya
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"The poor deserve compassion, not judgment"
Dunya
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"Humanity resides in our capacity for compassion"
Sonya
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"To give and not count the cost, to fight and not heed the wounds."
Don Quixote
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"The greatest gift one can give is time."
Jean Valjean
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"I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"Thou art cruel! Be merciful"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"The greatest gift a man can give is forgiveness."
Edmond Dantès
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"A man may be ever so learned, but he may be deficient in courtesy."
Don Quixote
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"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"You are too generous to trifle with me."
Mr. Darcy
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"The supreme law is mercy."
The Bishop of Digne
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"Forgiveness is the greatest act of strength."
Sonya
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"The poor woman was a saint."
Marmeladov
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"Forgiveness is not the absence of anger, but the presence of love."
Dolly Oblonskaya
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"The measure of a person is how they treat those who can do nothing for them."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"One should not talk of halters in the house of a man who has been hanged."
Sancho Panza
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"The greatest pleasure of a generous soul is to oblige others."
Don Quixote
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"Fair words cost nothing and accomplish much."
Sancho Panza
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"I have offended you by my want of attention when you first introduced yourself."
Mr. Darcy
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"Forgiveness is the highest act of love."
Sonya
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"The person who has suffered the most is the most merciful."
Edmond Dantès
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"Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
Abbé Faria
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"Forgiveness is the hardest lesson to learn"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"The lord of the castle has shown us such courtesy that to repay it with violence would be to commit an ungrateful act."
Sancho Panza
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"We are all responsible for everyone and for everything."
Sonya
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"Thou hast a sympathy which these men lack."
Hester Prynne
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"This woman has been kind to me."
Roger Chillingworth
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"Kindness is the language of the wise."
Don Quixote
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"The moment of forgiveness is the moment of the highest human capacity."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)