Compassion Quotes

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in our own."

- Adam Lindsay Gordon

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth."

- Albert Einstein

"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

- Albert Schweitzer

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees."

- Amelia Earhart

"Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your modus operandi and change your world."

- Annie Lennox

"Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."

- Bob Kerrey

"When words are both true and kind, they can change the world."

- Buddha

"We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Forget injuries; never forget kindness."

- Confucius

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- Dalai Lama

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

- Dalai Lama

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

- Dr. Seuss

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."

- Eric Hoffer

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."

- Frank A. Clark

"How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!"

- George Elliston

"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world."

- Harold Kushner

"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference."

- Helen James

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

"Always be a little kinder than necessary."

- James M. Barrie

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."

- James Matthew Barrie

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"In the end only kindness matters."

- Jewel

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Kind people are the best kind of people."