Quotes About Compassion

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction.

No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be?

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

If you want peace, work for justice.

If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.

This great son of the world, Madiba, showed us the way. Whether you are white, black yellow or brown you are all God's children, come together, work together and God will show you the way.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

It's going to take a lot of love to make things work out right.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

A lot of work still remains but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.