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Quotes About Compassion

We are all neighbors. Be kind. Be gentle.
~ Clemantine Wamariya
We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
~ Wendy Kopp
Even in these times, there are still neighbors that will turn their backs on neighbors.
~ Wynton Marsalis
The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
~ Francis Bacon
The dignity of our neighbors deserves to be defended.
~ Abigail Spanberger
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
~ Halima Aden
We are all neighbors. And we must love neighbors as ourselves.
~ Tim Kaine
Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.
~ Alveda King
Someone like Donald Trump can't control the way I show love to my brother. He can't control the way I feel about my neighbors.
~ Kamasi Washington
Constituent service is about meeting our neighbors where they are.
~ Cori Bush
Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.
~ Julian Baggini
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
~ John Ruskin
I remember, in the early days of my marriage, I thought I married the wrong person. We held to our own ideas of what the other should be and do, but neither of us lived up to those expectations.
~ Gary Chapman
It's neither my job nor within my capabilities to save people. But a book sure can try.
~ Lauren Myracle
Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.
~ Mo Ibrahim
Twenty-seven years incarcerated, his jailer became his best friend. So if you need an example on how we should act and how we should be, then Nelson Mandela is the man to follow.
~ Jim Brown
I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.
~ Frank Deford
I wasn't born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else - you're the entertainer.
~ Gabby Barrett
Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
~ Allen West
Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.
~ Bill O'Reilly
People care about others in their immediate network.
~ Frank Abagnale
One of the things The WB has about it that a lot of other networks don't is they lead with their heart.
~ David Nutter