Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes people will hear you better if you speak with a voice of compassion instead of authority. They long to be understood more than to be lectured.

Don't let those who take advantage of your generosity stop you from being generous.

In a world full of people who couldn't care less, be someone who couldn't care more.

Small kindnesses make you a bigger person.

'Make somebody happy today!' Each morning that motto repeat, and life that was gloomy and gray at once becomes pleasant and sweet.

There are actions which the whole world considers fine... They will say the same of great moral maxims; of that of Zoroaster: "If in doubt that an action be just, desist;" of that of Confucius: "Forget injuries; never forget kindnesses."

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can.

even though your broken heart may never heal bless those who help hold the pieces together

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

We can't always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they're enduring.

Don't cast a shadow on anyone unless you're providing shade.

Since I have no sweet flower to send you, I enclose my heart.

Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.

May love touch every brutal soldier and every uncherished heart.

Perhaps for some, rudeness is the fear of being nice.

Successful marriage: The union of two good forgivers.

When thou art feeble, old, and grey, My healthy arm shall be thy stay, And I will soothe thy pains away, My Mother.

She had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

A mother's kiss lovingly forgives the past, present, and future.

Nurses are the heart of healthcare.

Caring: The essence and central focus of nursing.

Nurses can take the pressure.

When you're a nurse you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours.