Quotes About Compassion

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

Everything we now enjoy has been provided through the kindness of other beings, past or present.

Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Kindness is a highly underrated quality.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.

A word spoken in loving kindness is worth far more than any gift.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

The kind need kindness most of all.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.

There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.