Quotes About Compassion

Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.

My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, "Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

A good teacher sees the commonality of all human beings and helps each individual find his uniqueness.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.