Compassion Quotes

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compass...

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

For once the crofter was at a a rather loss for words, for to him nothing has ever been more complet...

However angry I was with him, however much I wanted to humiliate Terry, I suddenly saw such humanity...

Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; ...

Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea...

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities ...

Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the...

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of here...

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the aca...

We only have what we give.

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who h...

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe i...

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can yo...

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate herita...

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ...

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

Who are we to make such a decision? To allow another living being - any living being - to die, when ...

The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It...

The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that...

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of nati...

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

(...) I let go, crying and unable to stop because God was such a dirty crook, contemptible skunk, th...

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the only thing that ...

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be s...

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a dr...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

God is not glorified when we keep for ourselves (no matter how thankfully) what we ought to be using...

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishme...

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your fam...

We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, lab...

I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has on...

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily ...

Never exact of a friend in adversity what you would require in prosperity.

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my...

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently...

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how impo...

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious ener...

Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and...

Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or exper...

Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.

[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (...

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (...

You must rely on reason and science,” she said, “and be guided by a likewise rational ethic of human...

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: re...

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing...

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and...

When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Heaven’s Tao is impartial,yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest t...

Revere the unity of all-that-iscarry out your daily activities with compassion;if you do not limit y...

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your de...

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoug...

The heart that gives, gathers.

Attain complete emptiness,Hold fast to stillness.Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens.Mind opening...

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest co...

Live,love and learn

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...

consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective,”...

The dew of compassion is a tear.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...

If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassio...

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" ...

You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is ...

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as yo...

Ask the poor. They'll tell you who the christians are.

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity insp...

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncl...

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we...

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of gr...

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, le...

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a...

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of crimi...

Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

Merlin, do you mind?' It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could...

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why...

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why...

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some com...

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe...