Quotes About Compassion

The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

One can love any man that is generous.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

Don't you know the man whose life you spare will always hate you?

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

You're a good man, Charlie Brown.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men