Compassion Quotes

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

Everett M. Dirksen

It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

Hugh Blair

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Sir Thomas Browne

Want oú compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes, it is to be feared, are seldom turned up to those who are manifestly greater, better, wiser, or happier than ourselves, without some degree of malignity, we commonly look downward on the mean and miserable with sufficient benevolence and pity.

Henry Fielding

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

Simone Weil

World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us.

Dalai Lama

Compassion takes imagination.

Jennifer Beals

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine qua non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, "what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?" And sometimes we use religion just to back up these unworthy hatreds, because we're frightened too.

Karen Armstrong

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

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

Haile Selassie

Compassion is no substitute for justice.

Rush Limbaugh

No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself

Muhammad

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

The purpose of human life is to serve and show compassion and the will to help others

Albert Schweitzer

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