Quotes About Compassion

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

You'll never regret being a good friend.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn't depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you're offstage.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

There's not enough good things in the world.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

Good night, everyone- and remember- in this world, if you wanna get ahead, you gotta learn to give a little!

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

Even a smile is a good deed.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that would warp the souls and spirits of children in our world.

We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find us and remind us of all the good that has been and will be.