Quotes About Compassion

Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Our children do not need a makeover, they just need to be understood. If you understand their emotional needs now, you can save them a lifetime of searching for what they never had as a child.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Even a witch wants sympathy.

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.

Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

You don't love someone out of loyalty... nor out of sympathy, either.

A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

If we have true love with sympathy and patient labor, we shall not go about scrutinizing our neighbor's shortcomings.

Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as it is nourished with kindness, sympathy, and understanding.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.