Better World Quotes - Compassion

"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."
-- Henri Frederick Amiel

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."
-- Sir James M. Barrie

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it...Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
-- Buddha

"Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence."
-- Confucius

"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."
-- Confucius.

"Change starts when someone sees the next step."
-- William Drayton.

"The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said."
-- Peter F. Drucker.

"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will."
-- Ecclesiastes

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving."
-- Albert Einstein

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
-- George Eliot

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
-- George Eliot

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."
-- Kahil Gibran

"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
-- Emma Goldman

"Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me' and other such simple courtesies...Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life."
-- Ed Hays

"I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride."
-- William James

"Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed."
-- Gerald Jampolsky

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
-- Soren Kierkegaard

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."
-- Sheldon Kopp.

"To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own."
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"Do every act of your life as if it were your last."
-- Marcus Aurelius

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."
-- Matthew 7:12

"If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it. The step may only be a tiny one, but trust that it may be the largest one possible for now."
-- Mildred McAfee

"Make no judgements where you have no compassion."
-- Anne McCaffrey.

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past -- but you sure do change the future."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all times you can
To all the people you can
As long as you can."
-- Bernard Meltzer (My Golden Rule)

"If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself."
-- Bernard Meltzer.

"Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid."
-- Bernard Meltzer

"Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me."
-- Alexander Pope, The Universal Prayer, 1738

"Let a good person do good deeds with the same zeal that an evil person does bad ones."
-- Shalom Rokeach

"Let the beauty we love be what we do."
-- Rumi

"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"
-- Seneca

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
-- Seneca

"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
-- Swami Sivanada

"After the verb "to love," the verb, "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world."
-- Bertha Von Suttner.

"When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward."
-- Swedish proverb.

"Give help rather than advice."
-- Luc de Vauvenargues

"My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world."
-- Faye Wattleton.

"With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see."
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

"Little kindnesses...will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways."
--Zadik