Quotes About Compassion

Captain Britain is not about representing an empire, he's about standing up for everyone and fighting for the betterment of all.

I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.

A lot of people are thanking me for standing up, but I don't want to be the only one standing up. Our political leaders are important. But I don't see anyone hunting down these guys setting refugee camps on fire or sending them to jail.

You know, I really do have some morals. I do actually care about people. And I do have a political standpoint.

I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

Of all the awards given to NFL athletes, the Walter Payton Man of the Year is the one that stands out above the rest to me because of what it represents.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

Man will become better when you show him what he is like.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

It is the function of women to teach men how to be human.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.