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Quotes About Compassion

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
~ Helen Keller
No matter how unfriendly you are you have always listened to my requests. Your kindness is always saving me.
~ Hani
We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.
~ Danielle Cormack
I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me
~ Max Lucado
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
~ Laozi
There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.
~ Billy Joel
Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.
~ Samuel Johnson
I realize more and more how instinctively pessimistic I am of all human kindness -- since I am always so bowled over by it -- and am never surprised by injustice, malice or personal attack.
~ Dawn Powell
Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
~ Pema Chodron
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
~ Seneca the Younger
No act of kindness is wasted.
~ William Watson Purkey
Everyone, regardless of his or her decisions, deserves our kindness!
~ Neil L. Andersen
Wishing kindness and compassion to all living creatures.
~ Brian Blessed
Kindness is produced by kindness.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
~ P. D. James
More than machinery, we need humanity.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.
~ Lin Yutang
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
~ Jack Kornfield
People just deserve to be treated with kindness.
~ Sophia Bush