Quotes About Compassion

Judas needed the money for a sick friend.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Your luck is how you treat people.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

A gentle Quaker, hearing a strange noise in his house one night, got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun, came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'

For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got angry, scolded God, were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his estimation, and yours too.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor, and vice versa.

To love others, we must first learn to love ourselves.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.