Quotes About Compassion

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

People dont care what you know until they know what you care

People don't care how much you know unless you know how much you care

To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart.

You don't really understand people until you hear their life story. If you know their stories, you grasp their history, their hurts, their hopes and aspirations. You put yourself in their shoes. And just by virtue of listening and remembering what's important to them, you communicate that you care and desire to add value.

People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The goal of confrontation should be to help, not to humiliate.

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it.

Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.

There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.

John Wesley: "Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

We need to decide how we want to be treated. Then we need to begin treating others in that manner.

The Situation Principle: Never let the situation mean more than the relationship.

You cannot kindle afire in any other heart until it is burning within your -ELEANOR DOAN

There isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story." —Fred Rogers

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

German poet Herman Hesse wrote, "If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." I agree with his viewpoint.

Paul the Apostle exhorted, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Any married man should forget his mistakes—there's no use in two people remembering the same thing.

What's the key to relating to others? It's putting yourself in someone else's place instead of putting them in their place.

If you want to win over another person, first win his heart, and the rest of him is likely to follow.

how we view a person is reflected by how we treat a person.

Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As