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Quotes About Compassion

Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.
~ Dean Winchester
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
~ Bill Hybels
The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you
~ Andy Stanley
We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.
~ Alan Redpath
I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.
~ Deborah Cox
I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family.
~ Carolina Herrera
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa
I'm most proud of the ambulance service. This is emergency work. Many times Edhi ambulances are the first to arrive and save people's lives. I'm very proud of this.
~ Abdul Sattar Edhi
It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
~ Noah Levine
The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.
~ Satish Kumar
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.
~ Black Hawk
The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Let us work together for unity and love.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
~ Jonathan Sacks
I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
~ Ian Somerhalder
Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.
~ John F. Kennedy
You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!
~ Doreen Virtue
Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.
~ Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.
~ LeVar Burton
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
~ Alice Neel