Quotes about Compassion
The best way to lose an enemy is to treat him like a friend.
— John Maxwell
It may sound corny, but it's really true: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
— John Maxwell
My Influence My life shall touch a dozen lives Before this day is done. Leave countless marks of good or ill, E'er sets the evening sun. This, the wish I always wish, The prayer I always pray; Lord, may my life help others' lives It touches by the way.
— John Maxwell
People don't care what you know until they know you care.
— John Maxwell
Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.
— John Maxwell
Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others.
— John Maxwell
Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.
— John Maxwell
Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.
— John Maxwell
Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.
— John Maxwell
The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasures you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
— John Maxwell
The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern, rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.
— John Maxwell
Our goal should be to treat others better than they treat us.
— John Maxwell