Compassion Quotes

"Even a smile is a good deed."

- Shari Arison

"Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists."

- Muhammad Ali

"Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God."

- Ronald Reagan

"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

- Muhammad Ali

"Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love for humanity."

- Hippocrates

"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."

- William Osler

"Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health."

- Lois Capps

"Sometimes, the best thing we can do for our patients is to tell them what the best behavior is and then negotiate something they can live with."

- Nancy Dickey

"A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own."

- W. H. Auden

"People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt."

- Seneca

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it."

- Mother Teresa

"Medicine is an art whose magic and creative ability have long been recognized as residing in the interpersonal aspects of the patient-physician relationship."

- Francis Weld Peabody

"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."

- Galatians 6:2

"If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it."

- 1 Corinthians 12:26

"Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling."

- 1 Peter 4:9

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

- 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

"Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation."

- Psalm 68:5

"It wasn't the kind of touch that said, Hey, I've got a plan, so hang in there because we're going to get out of this. It was more like the kind of touch that simply said, You aren't alone. It was really the only thing he could offer. And in that moment, it was enough."

- Richelle Mead

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy."

- Matthew 5:7

"So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we will lose control. Let go of that unfounded fear and give your child permission to be human. We all have days like that. None of us are perfect, and we must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. All of the punishments you could throw at them will not stamp out their humanity, for to err is human, and we all do it sometimes."

- Rebecca Eanes

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

- Kent Nerburn

"It's not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It's our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

- L.R. Knost

"A 'naughty child' doesn't exist—a child who acts out is simply a child with unmet needs."

- Birgitte Coste

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness, and the generosity hidden in the soul of a child."

- Emma Goldman

"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"

- Aeschylus

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word."

- Goran Persson

"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts."

- Fred Rogers

"Kindness is your superpower. Unleash it, and watch the world change."