Quotes About Compassion

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars: general good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars.

When a blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

She's somebody's mother, boys, you know, For all she's aged and poor and slow.

I believe in using words, not fists.

And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

That which is horrifying to you don't do to anybody else.

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.