Quotes About Compassion

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.

The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.

I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.