- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank
- “Compassion is the basis of morality.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other—not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” — Nelson Mandela
- “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” — Ronald Reagan
- “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa
- “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” — Albert Schweitzer
- “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain
- “We rise by lifting others.” — Robert Ingersoll
- “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.” — Pema Chödrön
- “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” — Steve Maraboli
- “You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.” — Adam Smith
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato
- “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” — William Wordsworth
- “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” — Leo Tolstoy
- “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia
- “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” — Coretta Scott King
- “Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.” — Thomas Merton
- “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama
- “Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
- “Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.” — Mason Cooley
- “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama
- “I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” — Mother Teresa
- “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” — Mother Teresa
- “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Teresa
- “Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.” — Orson Scott Card
- “It is not enough to be compassionate. You must act.” — Dalai Lama
- “As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartedness.” — Alice Walker
- “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.” — Barack Obama
- “Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.” — Prince
- “Humanity should be our race. Love should be our religion.” — Unknown
- “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” — John Holmes
- “Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” — Dalai Lama
- “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” — Maya Angelou
- “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” — Daniel Goleman
- “We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.” — Charlie Chaplin
- “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.” — Albert Einstein
- “Compassion is the basis of all morality.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
- “When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.” — Carl Rogers
- “The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.” — Bill Gates
- “The essence of humanity is compassion.” — Dalai Lama
- “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
- “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.” — Pema Chödrön
- “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.” — Helen Keller
- “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
- “It is in the shelter of each other that the people live.” — Irish Proverb
- “The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” — The Talmud
- “He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.” — Confucius
- “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” — Shannon L. Alder
- “There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering.” — Dalai Lama
- “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is the human connection that matters most.” — Unknown
- “Compassion is the greatest form of love humans have to offer.” — Rachel Joy Scott
- “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” — Albert Einstein
- “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” — Amelia Earhart
- “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.” — Lydia M. Child
- “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama
- “Humanity is but a single brotherhood: so make peace with your brethren.” — Quran 49:10
- “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” — William Arthur Ward
- “There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.” — John Connolly
- “If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa
- “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” — Desmond Tutu
- “Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.” — Henry Ward Beecher
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.” — Maya Angelou
- “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
- “Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.” — Albert Einstein
- “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Humanity is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis
- “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
- “To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.” — Nelson Mandela