Quotes about Compassion

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?

What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.