Quotes about Compassion
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
— Ayn Rand
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
— William Law
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
— Henry David Thoreau
You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.
— Max Lucado
Violence is just, where kindness is vain.
— Pierre Corneille
Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.
— Richard Paul Evans
A kindness spontaneously offered to him who needs it, is doubly gratifying.
— Publilius Syrus
A kindness is never wasted.
— Aesop
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
— George H. W. Bush
Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
— Charles Spurgeon
Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.
— Joseph Wirthlin
You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.
— Zig Ziglar