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Quotes About Compassion

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
~ Jane Goodall
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
~ Albert Schweitzer
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
~ Dolores Huerta
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
~ Albert Pike
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
~ Mother Teresa
Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.
~ Larry H. Miller
The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Find in yourself those human things which are universal.
~ Sanford Meisner
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
~ Diana, Princess of Wales
You don't have the moral right to hold one child back to make another child feel better.
~ Stephanie S. Tolan
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
~ Novalis
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
~ Thomas J. Watson
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
~ Mother Teresa
He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
~ Winston Churchill
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
~ C. S. Lewis
Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.
~ Shantideva
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela
Kindness in giving creates love.
~ Laozi
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
~ Thomas Sowell
Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
~ Mark Nepo
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
~ John Lennon