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Quotes About Compassion

Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."
~ Joe J. Christensen
Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?
~ Donna Tartt
The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.
~ Dalai Lama
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.
~ Edna O'Brien
We're all mankind and humankind - so just be one and show kindness.
~ Amani
The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.
~ Charles Bukowski
To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.
~ Cassandra Clare
Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.
~ Perry Brass
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.
~ Max Lucado
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
~ Pierre Corneille
Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
~ Jeph Jacques
The lowest form of barbarism is smugly to berate someone for extending an act of kindness.
~ Perry Brass
Kindness is a steeling feeling that has a power of filling the gaps in relationships by stealing hearts.
~ Anuj
Everything in the world needs kindness, child. [Ryssa]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.
~ Mencius
When we have a choice it is always best to choose kindness. Veganism is simply the kinder choice.
~ Sharon Gannon
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Be kinder. Kindness is underrated!
~ Louise Roe
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
~ George Eliot