Quotes About Compassion

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.

Treat people how you want to be treated.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

Treat everybody the same way you want to be treated

We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

Give respect before you expect it. Treat people the way you want to be treated. Remember the mission. Set the example. Keep going.

If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.

Live and let live. I want to be happy and be loved...that's all.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

A powerful woman is someone who exudes confidence and can be tough but fair and kind. And also knows how to get what she wants.

Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but 'compassion' is when you want to take somebody else's.

I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that.

Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too.

Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!