Portuguese Proverb Quotes

Everyone responds to kindness.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

Care and pity are two different things.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

We are not by nature cruel.

Mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Pity is treason

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

We've got to be kind.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.