Compassion Quotes

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

By compassion one can be brave.

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others.

To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths.

Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.

Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.

Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent.

I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before.

A miracle is when we respond with compassion where a moment ago we may have believed there was something to be upset, blaming, or angry about.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

My idea of the perfect man would be someone intelligent and clever enough, but also kind and compassionate enough to stand up to me - to stand up to me with compassion.

Being poor in Africa is something people in America can't relate to. Part of the challenge is bringing that reality to people and moving them. You have to arouse compassion.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

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

Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities.

We need to forgive - but mindfully. We need compassion that powered by wisdom. That's the way to address our bullies.

Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish.

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

Jesus conveyed the impression of complete love, compassion, kindness, and infinite patience.

Compassion is an alternate perception

In Buddhism, compassion always goes with wisdom. Compassion without wisdom is not understood to be true compassion, and wisdom without compassion is not true wisdom.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

Have compassion towards each other, including animals.

I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.

What is of most moment of compassion is not feelings of pity but feelings of togetherness.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

When the Sacred Masculine is combined with the sacred feminine inside each of us, we create the 'sacred marriage' of compassion and passion in ourselves.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.

The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God's people.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Modesty is a learned affectation. It's no good. Humility is great, because humility says, 'There was someone before me. I'm following in somebody's footsteps.'

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

If your way is not the way of the science, then your way is not the way! Change it! If your way is not the way of the compassion and love, then your way is not the way! Change it!

Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!

If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!

If you do not feel the bitter cold inside you when you look at the poor trembling out of cold, it means you are lack of compassion; in other words, you are lack of everything!

If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!