Quotes About Compassion

Nurses are patient people.

Nurses dispense comfort, compassion, and caring without even a prescription.

If love can't cure it, nurses can.

Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes.

Nurses don't wait until October to celebrate Make a Difference Day — they make a difference every day!

Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!

A nurse will always give us hope, an angel with a stethoscope.

We'd all be worse without a nurse.

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race. Hence, we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. The Prince of Peace, under whose stainless banner we rally, came not to destroy, but to save, even the worst of enemies.

Peace is the father of friendship.

Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

The rich and poor are but different ventricles of the same heart of humanity.

We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

This world abounds indeed with misery: to lighten its burthen we must divide it with one another.

And so our conception of religion is getting roomier and more inclusive today, and love is the magician who has enlarged the temple!

The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother.

In the place of roses be a rose, and where there are thorns be a thorn.

Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Prayer of the day: God, let the people of the world understand how they can embrace simplicity to save their lives.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. Scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. A smile, accompanied by a kind word, has been known to reclaim a poor outcast and change the whole current of a human life.

The shortest distance between two people is a smile.