Compassion Is Not Weakness Quotes

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

#2. Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share,

Liam Neeson

#3. Where was the line between compassion and foolishness, kindness and weakness? And that was from her position. From theirs, it might be a line between mercy and cruelty, consideration and callousness.

Rohinton Mistry

#4. Give your weakness to one who helps.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#5. It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#6. She's alive, Alaric. She was wounded, but it was minor," Alexios said, a rough compassion in his voice. A strange weakness raced through Alaric and he had to fight his own lungs to draw breath. Quinn was wounded. "How minor?" he snarled. "Tell me, now.

Alyssa Day

#7. The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. The Supreme Leader's voice was flat. "You have compassion for her." "No - never. Compassion? For an enemy of the Order?" "I perceive the problem," Snoke intoned. "It isn't her strength that is making you fail. It's your weakness." The rebuke hurt, but Ren didn't show it.

Alan Dean Foster

#9. The Holy Spirit, out of compassion for our weakness, comes to us even when we are impure. And if He finds our intellect truly praying to Him, He enters it and puts to flight the whole array of thoughts and ideas circling within it, and He arouses it to a longing for spiritual prayer.

Evagrius Ponticus

#10. Let's recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn't a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#11. Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion.

Jim George

#12. When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

Jack Kornfield

#13. I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

Ben Jonson

#14. A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness?

Jacqueline Carey

#15. There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

Karleen Koen

#16. It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

Desmond Tutu

#17. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,

Kristin Neff

#18. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd