Quotes About Compassion

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

To be loved, be lovable." —Ovid

That best portion of a good man's life: His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."—WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least

He told His followers, become a servant of all. To rise up, stoop low. The last shall be first, and the first last.

And we know that we really live only when we really give.

When we help the weak, the poor, and the sick—expecting nothing in return—we are most like God, and He blesses us beyond anything the world can offer.

genuine love blooms in relationships with the most difficult people.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."—GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

You can get everything in your life, if you help other people to get what they want

People don't care what you know until they know that you care.

When we love God with all our hearts, it affects our human relationships too.

We have to break this cycle, back up, regroup, and bring some sanity to our lives so we'll have the perspective, energy, and compassion for the people we see each day, and especially those who live under the same roof with us. Then we can love them like we love ourselves.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

My dear child...fault is an empty word. It is a coin with only one side. It is not a reason or an excuse.

there were times when the sharp edges of Neric's convictions were bruising to those who were close to him.

This is the woman who stopped the Stanford Prison Study. When I said it got out of control, I was the prison superintendent. I didn't know it was out of control. I was totally indifferent. She came down, saw that madhouse and said, "You know what, it's terrible what you're doing to those boys. They're not prisoners, they're not guards, they're boys, and you are responsible." And I ended the study the next day. The good news is I married her the next year.

It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say, "Yes, it's terrorizing people, but it's worth doing because it will end terrorism." But how much common sense does it take to know that you cannot end terrorism by indiscriminately dropping bombs?

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.