Quotes about Compassion
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...
— Abraham Lincoln
Do good to those who hate you and turn their ill will to friendship.
— Abraham Lincoln
He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
— Abraham Lincoln
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.
— Aesop
Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.
— Aesop
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain de Botton
We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.
— Alain de Botton
Having looked the beast of the past in the eye, having asked and received forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
— Desmond Tutu
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
— Desmond Tutu
Do your little bit of good where you are; it is those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
— Desmond Tutu
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
— Desmond Tutu
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
— Desmond Tutu