Quotes about Compassion
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
— Joseph Addison
On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.
— George Clooney
The point at which things happen is a decision. In stead of focusing on yourself, focus on how you can help someone else.
— Germany Kent
The best of you are those who are best to the women
— Anonymous
Nothing that you confess... can make me love you any less.
— Anonymous
I would love God even if he damned me, because he was so gracious to others.
— Charles Spurgeon
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
— Mother Teresa
Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.
— Mother Teresa
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
— Isabel Allende
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
— William Booth