Quotes About Compassion

A Lady with a Lamp [Florence Nightingale] shall standIn the great history of the land,A noble type of good,Heroic womanhood.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The mother's heart is the child's school-room.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.