Quotes About Compassion

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.

You have not yet suffered enough! For you suffer only from yourselves, you have not yet suffered from man.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

Man is a moral being.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.

A man must learn to love his children, not because they are his, but because they are children, else his love will be scarcely a better thing at last than the party-spirit of the faithful politician.