Compassion Quotes

Quotes about compassion, empathy, and kindness.

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Maya Angelou

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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Maya Angelou

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with them. The people who give you their food give you their heart.

Cesar Chavez

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Nelson Mandela

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mahatma Gandhi

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

Robin Williams

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Mark Twain

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. The sun does not shine for itself. Living for others is the rule of nature.

Pope Francis

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Voltaire

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

Kobe Bryant

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely nothing.

Robin Williams