Quotes about Compassion
Make friendship a fine art.
- John Wooden
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Henry David Thoreau
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
- Abraham Lincoln
Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus
How much better the world would be if we all gave gifts of understanding, and compassion, of service, and friendship, of kindness and gentleness.
- Thomas Monson
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
- Publilius Syrus
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.
- Nelson Mandela
He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.
- James Howell
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends."
- Abraham Lincoln
Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard