Compassion Quotes

"No act of kindness, is ever wasted – Aesop"

- Aesop

"Use each moment to make another’s eyes sparkle and to warm a heart."

- Doreen Virtue

"Never give up on someone who is having a bad day. Tomorrow could be yours."

- Giovannie de Sadeleer

"My aim is to spread more smiles than tears."

- Tupac Shakur

"There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t."

- Tupac Shakur

"When we combine the courage to make clear what works for us and what doesn’t with the compassion to assume people are doing their best, our lives change."

- Brené Brown

"Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly, or unknowingly, attach judgment to giving help."

- Brené Brown

"Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment."

- Brené Brown

"Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it."

- Brené Brown

"Share, care, hug like a bear."

- Amy Leigh Mercree

"Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable."

- Daniel Quinn

"My mercy embraces all things"

- Quran

"Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story."

- Ron Hall

"When we bear witness when we become the situation — homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death — the right action arises by itself."

- Bernie Glassman

"If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn’t care for them, but because you and I didn’t give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter."

- Mother Teresa

"Let your love be the kindness to make a homeless person believe that a soul needs something more than just four walls and a ceiling."

- Munia Khan

"Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost reality – again."

- Munia Khan

"Treat him as a friend and save a life – A homeless man is not a leper."

- Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

"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

"The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members."

- Pearl S. Buck

"What we would like to do is change the world — make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do."

- Dorothy Day

"I teach a Bible study for homeless guys in downtown Atlanta every week. Been doing it for years. That’s the guys I’d rather go talk to. I’d rather take my act outside the church."

- Jeff Foxworthy

"It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them."

- Dalai Lama

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

- Mother Teresa

"Migrant workers have helped build our roads, homes and offices. We cannot stand and watch them be homeless."

- Sonu Sood

"Be good to your parents."

- Quran

"In the embrace of family, kindness finds its true home"

"Where every act of kindness creates ripples of live"

"You might take a larger seat, but what about taking a larger space in other people's hearts?"

"In a world where you can be anything, be kind to yourself."

- Unknown