Quotes About Compassion

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

Some of the most beautiful people, to me, are those with the wrong geometry. Mother Teresa is extremely beautiful and not because she is a saint. Her characteristics are very strange, and that is what generates the power she had.

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

No one is ever really a stranger. We cling to the belief that we share nothing with certain people. It's rubbish. We have almost everything in common with everyone.

For every hate-filled attempt to harm, there will be always the legion of those who do not hesitate to give their help and care to a stranger when it is needed.

Hello, friends.' I've had fun with that expression to satisfy the cynics, but it comes from the heart, and I don't apologize for it. Like my dad - for whom I designed the expression during the 2002 PGA Championship, when he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease - I've never met a stranger.

We must make every effort to extend a hand to the stranger, and continue to fight to make sure we don't give up on our American values.

I think that's what 'Stranger Things' does, it opens you up - it has a real beating heart to it.

When I think about where most of Scripture points me, it is toward defending the poor, and the immigrant, and the stranger, and the prisoner, and the outcast, and those who are left behind by the way society works.

It takes an incredibly special person to be willing to put his or her life on the line for a complete stranger. And to get up every morning, day after day after day, to do that, I think, is extraordinary.

For those of us that can do it, do something nice for a stranger. Do something nice for a family member.

Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.

Your health shouldn't rely on pleas for kindness from strangers. We can and will do better.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.