Compassion Quotes

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

Well, I think when we can turn to the person sitting next to us and really see them with kindness and see ourselves reflected back - when there's some dignity and compassion traveling back and forth.

Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.

I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

If you would take, you must first give.

We do not need guns and bombs to bring peace, we need love and compassion.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

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

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

Love is the dove of peace, the spirit of brotherhood, it is tenderness and compassion, forgiveness and tolerance.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

I think if we live with more compassion globally, I think we would be in a better place. We've had more then we have had as human beings technology wise.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Compassion can drive us to do amazing things and give us perspective.

People with hearts filled with love, peace, and compassion live in heaven.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

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.

Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals.

I would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people.

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

World peace must develop from inner peace.

Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by the wickedness of his creatures.

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

One step closer to the end of the world. The one-two combo of corporate greed and organised religion apparently proved to be too much for reason, sanity and compassion.

Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

For innumerable reasons, Mahamati, the Bodhisattva, whose nature is compassion, is not to eat any meat.