Compassion Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Compassion
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~ A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ~

William Bennett

~ Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well. ~

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world. ~

Kedar Joshi

~ The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. ~

Báb

~ As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. ~

Joseph Butler

~ How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these. ~

George Washington Carver

~ Compassion is the ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and the deepest reach in his or her search for self-fulfillment. ~

Arthur Jersild

~ Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion. ~

Honore de Balzac

~ A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities. ~

Tenzin Gyatso

~ WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered. ~

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ Compassion takes imagination. ~

Jennifer Beals

~ Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere. ~

Dalai Lama

~ The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:-- A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave, Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind. ~

Lord Byron

~ With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. ~

Keshavan Nair

~ Volunteers are the only human beings on the face of the earth who reflect this nation's compassion, unselfish caring, patience, and just plain love for one another. ~

Erma Bombeck

~ It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. ~

Marian Wright Edelman

~ A nurse is compassion in scrubs. ~

Lexie Saige

~ Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion. ~

Guy Finley

~ Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~

Dalai Lama

~ Compassion is the basis of all morality. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ 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. ~

Frederick Buechner

~ Make no judgements where you have no compassion. ~

Unknown

~ Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism ~

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

Haile Selassie

~ Compassion is no substitute for justice. ~

Rush Limbaugh

~ I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of wat ~

Maya Angelou

~ If you canít find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether. ~

Unknown

~ I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. ~

Thomas Aquinas

~ A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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