Compassion Quotes

"I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them."

"Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle."

"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."

"A Hindu is interested in the welfare of all: not merely humans, but all living beings."

"Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin."

"Cancer is something none of us are prepared to deal with. We're here to help people through the process."

"It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action."

"To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

"Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."

"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers."

José Narosky

"Bearing the bandages, water and sponge, straight and swift to my wounded I go."

"Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."

Edith Cavell

"Fierceness in battle is called valour; to help a fallen foe is the sharp edge of that valour."

Thiruvalluvar

"All men are my children."

Emperor Ashoka

"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

Baruch Spinoza

"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved."

Jane Goodall

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

Coretta Scott King

"I thank thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong."

George Washington Carver

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

"Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction."

Anne Sullivan

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

Arthur Schopenhauer