ConfuciusSourced
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Source: Analects 15.24, tr. James Legge
Checked quotes about kindness
4 quotes with a known source.
Thomas PaineSourced
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Source: Rights of Man, Part II (1792)
Charles DickensSourced
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
Source: Our Mutual Friend, Book 3, ch. 6 (1865)
George EliotSourced
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Source: Middlemarch, ch. 72 (1872)
Famous, but not theirs
Quotes about kindness that are usually credited to the wrong person.
PlatoNot theirs
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Actually: Traced to the Scottish minister John Watson ("Ian Maclaren"), around 1897.
Maya AngelouMisquoted
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The real words: An earlier version is in Carl W. Buehner's collection Richard Evans' Quote Book (1971). Angelou later used it, but she did not originate it.