Quotes about Compassion

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

God must have loved the plain people: He made so many of them.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.