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Quotes About Compassion

The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.
~ Ernie Banks
It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.
~ Albert Einstein
Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.
~ Tony Evans
When man to man shall be friend and brother.
~ Gerald Massey
There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.
~ Sam Snead
The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .
~ Dwight L. Moody
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
~ Thomas Jefferson
No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.
~ Jimmy Cannon
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
~ Wally Lamb
For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.
~ Halldor Laxness
From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.
~ Jimmy Reid
We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man to all life.
~ Rachel Carson
God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.
~ Darrin Patrick
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.
~ Gamaliel Bailey
To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.
~ Kirk Cameron
To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst.
~ Frank Frankfort Moore
I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you'll be fine.
~ Jason Momoa
A son of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...is a man who unceasingly expends himself to light the fire of divine love in the world. Nothing stops him.
~ Anthony Mary Claret
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.
~ Mark Twain
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
~ Bridget of Sweden
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
~ Joan Baez