Quotes about Compassion
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
— Frederick Douglass
It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.
— Albert Schweitzer
Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.
— Pope Francis
They [the people under you] may desire help, but more than anything else they desire sympathy. Don't make the mistake of turning such men down with the statement that you have troubles of your own.
— Napoleon Hill
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
— Oscar Wilde
A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.
— Joseph Addison
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
— Harold S. Kushner
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
— Albert Schweitzer
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
— DL Moody
We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.
— Charles Spurgeon
The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.
— George Eliot
He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.
— GK Chesterton