Quotes About Compassion

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Needs there groan a world in anguish just to teach us sympathy?

Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.