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Quotes About Compassion

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
~ Horace Smith
Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.
~ Unknown
To give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~ Aeschylus
My grandmother told me to be nice to everyone and always think about how you would feel if you were in their shoes. It's really good advice.
~ Unknown
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~ Solon
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
~ Henri Nouwen
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~ Aeschylus
The best advice we can give ourselves is the loving advice we'd give somebody else. I can get some great clarity during my own workshops.
~ Unknown
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~ Aeschylus
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.
~ Aldous Huxley
When God blesses you, the only time you should reach down is to pull someone up.
~ Unknown
The one who is meant for you encourages you to be your best, but still loves and accepts you at your worst.
~ Unknown
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise
~ Robert Martin
One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.
~ Therese of Lisieux
Be the Light of Guidance in every heart.
~ Unknown
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
~ Unknown
We are not here to condemn anybody but we are liable to guide someone who you think is lost, and doesn't know which way to go.
~ Unknown
Be an inspiration to others who have a negative outlook on life. Hold their hands and guide them toward the light.
~ Unknown
They say you should always follow your heart, but what should I do when everywhere my heart leads me I end up hurting?
~ Unknown
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
~ Ben Sweetland
Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
~ Unknown
You have to love yourself, if you don't have any love for yourself trying to give love to somebody else is impossible.
~ Unknown
Don't let the hurt someone else caused be the reason why you reject the love someone wants to give you. Never make someone pay for a mistake they didn't make.
~ Trent Shelton
Without any truth there is no love.
~ Unknown