Quotes about Compassion
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
— James Howell
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
— Abraham Lincoln
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
— Elbert Hubbard
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
— John Wooden
There is no physician like a true friend.
— Anonymous
Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.
— Anonymous
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
— Joseph Addison
If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.
— Joyce Meyer
Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
— John Donne