Compassion Quotes

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.

There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.