Quotes About Compassion

Thereafter he walked very carefully, with his eyes on the road, and when he saw a tiny ant toiling by he would step over it, so as not to harm it. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything. You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king's decree of a scholar's essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

And then I should get no brains, said the Scarecrow. And I should get no courage, said the Cowardly Lion. And I should get no heart, said the Tin Woodman. And I should never get back to Kansas, said Dorothy.

You people with hearts, he said, have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much. The Tin Woodman

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains.

I think you are a very good tiger, said Dorothy, patting the huge head of the beast. In that you are mistaken, was the reply. I am a good beast, perhaps, but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it is the nature of tigers to be cruel and ferocious, and in refusing to eat harmless living creatures I am acting as no good tiger has ever before acted. That is why I left the forest and joined my friend the Cowardly Lion.

Suppose we try kindness, suggested the Tin Woodman. I've heard that anyone can be conquered with kindness, no matter how ugly they may be.

For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king's decree or a scholar's essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.

Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe. As

If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world, declared the Tin Woodman. Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

I am on-ly a ma-chine," said Tiktok. "I cannot be kind an-y more than I can be sor-ry or glad. I can on-ly do what I am wound up to do.

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, she said. The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends, was the answer.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends.

Any friend of Dorothy, remarked the Cowardly Lion, must be our friend, as well. So let us cease this talk of skull crushing and converse upon more pleasant subjects. Have you breakfasted, Sir Horse?

Vocês que têm coração, podem sempre se guiar por ele, e nunca fazem mal aos outros. Mas eu não tenho coração, e por isso preciso tomar muito cuidado.

Cara dama, por que reprova Este aqui, pobre palhaço? Uma moça assim, tão nova, De coraçãozinho de aço

I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form, said Woot; it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for some time, now, and I don't like it. It makes me ashamed to be a beast of this sort when by right of birth I'm a boy; so I'm sure it would be wicked to ask anyone else to take my place. They

You people with hearts he said have something to guide you and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much

when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite--always.

Dora is too good," said Anne. "She'd behave just as well if there wasn't a soul to tell her what to do. She was born already brought up, so she doesn't need us; and I think," concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, "that we always love best the people who need us. Davy needs us badly.

I do not know, my friend. It seems wrong somehow that the success of a race be measured by its ability to do violence.