Quotes About Compassion

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

Sympathy is no substitute for action.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.

The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.

If we endure all things patiently and with gladness, thinking on the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, and bearing all for the love of Him: herein is perfect joy.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

The world is evolving from imperfection to perfection. It needs all love and sympathy; great tenderness and watchfulness are required from each one of us.

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.

Four innate sentiments dispose people to a universal moral sense. These are sympathy, fairness, self-control and duty.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!