Compassion Quotes

"Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters."

- Criss Jami

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them."

- Dalai Lama

"A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world."

- Ellen G. White

"Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness."

- Vivek Murthy

"The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex."

- Leo Buscaglia

"It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others."

- Carol Burnett

"I think it's important, as a human being, to help others."

- Jason Derulo

"I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others."

- Laurell K. Hamilton

"Many people look at me and think they know me but they don't at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others."

- Cristiano Ronaldo

"Be kind and help others. Let the ones you love know you love them."

- Kyle Carpenter

"We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger."

- Bart Starr

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."

- Dalai Lama

"The greatest poverty that can afflict the human spirit is the loss of a generous heart. You will know that success has slipped away when your passion for helping others grows cold."

- Bill Lane Doulos

"I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature."

- The Notorious B.I.G.

"I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That's my motto."

- Melanie Martinez

"Be happy for those who are happy, and weep for those who weep; such is your duty."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

"Animals keep you company when you’re really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what – it’s harder to feel bad or down."

- Aaron Carter

"Our task must be to free ourselves … by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

- Albert Einstein

"Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans."

- Robert Wagner

"We often think of nursing as giving meds on time, checking an X-ray to see if the doctor needs to be called, or taking an admission at 2:00 a.m. with a smile on our faces. Too often, we forget all the other things that make our job what it truly is — caring and having a desire to make a difference."

- Erin Pettengill, RN

"You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I’ll guarantee you’ll win."

- Patch Adams

"People who care about animals tend to care about people. They don’t care about animals to the exclusion of people. Caring is not a finite resource and, even more than that, it’s like a muscle: the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets."

- Jonathan Foer

"I think there is a connection between, and I can’t go further than this, the way we treat animals and the way we treat people who are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Look at the ways in which people who commit such violence on other human beings have often learned how to enjoy that by enacting violence on animals."

- Angela Davis

"I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, develop, and implement systems of change that are beneficial to all sentient beings and to the environment."

- Joaquin Phoenix

"Animals are not property or ‘things,’ but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support."

- Marc Bekoff

"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals."

- Theophile Gautier

"Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

- George Eliot

"When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives."

- Kristin Neff