Quotes About Compassion

It is not what we do, it is how much love we put in the doing.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Spend a moment, every day, thinking of someone to love.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!

I am made all things to all men.

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

I was sick, and ye visited me.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth.

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

To be a man will continue to demand a heroic heart as long as mankind is not quite human.

Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice.

Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.

We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.