Compassion Quotes

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

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.

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

Dalai Lama

If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Sogyal Rinpoche

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord Byron

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

Compassion is a two way street.

Frank Capra

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 someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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