Quotes About Compassion

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

The zeal of friends it is that knocks me down, and not the hate of enemies.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.

To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?