Compassion Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Compassion
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~ Compassion is not a popular virtue ~

Karen Armstrong

~ Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food ~

Joseph Butler

~ Compassion is contempt with a human face ~

John McCarthy

~ Compassion is the basis of morality. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men ~

Saint Francis of Assisi

~ I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable ~

Dalai Lama

~ No-one knows what the soul is. But what we do know is, the soul is where God works compassion ~

Meister Eckhart

~ It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures ~

Mohandas K. \'Mahatma\' Gandhi

~ With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment. ~

Christina Baldwin

~ Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy. ~

Giovanni Boccaccio

~ Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. ~

Junius

~ Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart. ~

Thomas Paine

~ Compassion is the basis of all morality. ~

Arthur Schopenhauer

~ There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. ~

Bishop Robert South

~ I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion. ~

William Carlos Williams

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

Unknown

~ Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. ~

Buddha

~ The Secret's" message is to let go of all blame because it only destroys you, and to move forward with hope, love, compassion and kindness. ~

B·b

~ I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival. ~

Dalai Lama

~ This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way. ~

Sogyal Rinpoche

~ Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance. ~

Thich Nhat Hanh

~ Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. ~

GINA MARANTO

~ I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill-will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow-men, not knowing what they do. ~

John Quincy Adams

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

Dalai Lama

~ Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. ~

Dean Koontz

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

~ Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept in the direst necessityand, if compelled, will use themonly with the utmost restraint.Peace is his highest value.If the peace has been shattered,how can he be content?His enemies are not demons,but human beings like himself.He doesn't wish them personal harm.Nor does he rejoice in victory.How could he rejoice in victoryand delight in the slaughter of men?He enters a battle gravely,with sorrow and with great compassion,as if he were attending a funeral ~

Lao Tzu†

~ Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes ~

Thomas Sowell

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