Compassion Quotes

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

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

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.

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.

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.

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 there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

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.

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.

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.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'