Quotes about Compassion

So when you and I are tempted to criticize someone tomorrow, let's remember Al Capone, "Two Gun" Crowley and Albert Fall. Let's realize that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself or herself, and condemn us in return; or, like the gentle Taft, will say: "I don't see how I could have done any differently from what I have.

Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding effects on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

get the other person's point of view and see things from his or her angle, as well as from our own.

Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down.

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

One of his favourite quotations was 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.

I am going to meet people today who talk too much—people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn't imagine a world without such people.

They sought small, meaningful ways to leave people a little better.

individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.