Quotes About Compassion

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.

Love and serve the world through your work.

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

after several months of probation work, standing on my feet some ten to twelve hours a day, I decided that as a nurse I was a pretty good entertainer.

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

There is plenty of work for love to do.