Compassionate Quotes

#1. Twenty-fours hours of sleeplessness had made her, in my eyes, anyway, and idealized representation of compassionate, long-suffering women of all ages everywhere.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.

Debasish Mridha

#4. In life, you have the choice to be compassionate and kind. Be able to laugh at yourself. Give more to others and you will be happy.

Bernard Cenney

#5. May I live this day ... Compassionate of heart, / Gentle in word, / Gracious in awareness / Courageous in thought, / Generous in love / Eternal Echoes

John O'Donohue

#6. Whenever tragic loss occurs, you either resist or you yield. Some people become bitter or deeply resentful; others become compassionate, wise, and loving. Yielding means inner acceptance of what is.You are open to life.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. If you are passionate, compassionate, commanding, and just, everybody will feel the passion and they will follow you passionately.

Debasish Mridha

#8. 'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Chris Crutcher

#9. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Walt Whitman

#10. More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama

#11. You should win an award or something for most compassionate student. No, wait. I mean the most self-centered dipshit award." Her

Samantha Young

#12. Compassionate doctors sometimes lie to patients about the severity of their condition, and it is not always wrong to do so.

Richard Dawkins

#13. If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Hasdai Ibn Shaprut

#14. Her father, cheering her, showed a compassionate superiority to this woman's weakness, which was wonderful to see.

Charles Dickens

#15. I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

Rita Mae Brown

#16. As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#17. On January 21st of 2017, the day after I take the oath of office, Americans will finally wake up in a country where the laws of the United States are enforced. We are going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone. But my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.

Donald Trump

#18. Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

Harry Browne

#19. Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.

Maggie Scarf

#20. The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

Robert Cheeke

#21. Compassion is a sign of inner peace. Kindness is a sign of inner strength. Be kind and be compassionate.

Debasish Mridha

#22. We must practice consistent, reliable, predictable, effective, thoughtful, compassionate and even courteous communication every single day to successfully sustain, develop and grow our business.

Kip Tindell

#23. Sometimes, we find ourselves as conservatives being angry when we should be joyful, finding ourselves being negative when we should be positive, because we have a positive message to send ... We ought to be the most compassionate people in the world.

Kevin Cramer

#24. It becomes increasingly clear that we won't be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.

Pema Chodron

#25. Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#26. As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

Abigail Washburn

#27. Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

Donna Air

#28. Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#29. I want to feel deeply, and whenever I am brokenhearted I emerge more compassionate. I think I allow myself to be brokenhearted more easily, knowing I won't be irrevocably shattered [p. 59]

Sylvia Boorstein

#30. The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.

John Cheever

#31. We fight terrorism. It threatens our sovereign, democratic, compassionate and decent way of life.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#32. The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

Dalai Lama

#33. Dream a day
bright with kindness
and a deep compassionate ray.

Debasish Mridha

#34. Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless - that's your job, to bless.

Eugene H. Peterson

#35. I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.

Sean Bean

#36. Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.

Marvin J. Ashton

#37. Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

Lawrence B. Lindsey

#38. One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself.

Bryant McGill

#39. The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Anthony Daniels

#40. compassionate people? Would this

Susan Wiggs

#41. Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.

Robert Thurman

#42. To understand someone, we have to be loving, kind, and compassionate.

Debasish Mridha

#43. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.

Kylie Griffin

#44. I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation; that love and loss conjoined are the best opportunity we get to live fully, to be our strongest, our most compassionate, our most graceful selves.

Pam Houston

#45. The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death ... Choose life."

Desmond Tutu

#46. Compassion is born from the imagination. To have the desire to be compassionate, you have to imagine a world that's better than the one you live in.

Ryan Henry Ward Artist

#47. Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Sharon Salzberg

#48. The paradox is that we can become wiser and more compassionate and live more fulfilling lives by refusing to be who we have tended to be in the past. But we must also relax, accepting things as they are in the present, as we strive to change ourselves.

Sam Harris

#49. My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

Suriya

#50. It is not enough to be loving, you have to be sympathetic, kind, caring, and compassionate.

Debasish Mridha

#51. Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Karen Armstrong

#52. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

Alysia Reiner

#53. People are not always what they say there are - or even what they think they are. There is but One who sees us objectively, and heave reason to be thankful that He is called the Merciful, the Compassionate, the Forgiving

Charles Le Gai Eaton

#54. People are much more likely to trust a leader if they know he is compassionate and forgiving of mistakes.

Donald T. Phillips

#55. It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

Barry Sternlicht

#56. she knew the effort it took to keep one's exterior self together, upright, when everything inside was in pieces, broken beyond repair. One touch, one warm, compassionate hand, could shatter that hard-won perfect exterior. And then it would take years and years to restore it. So

Melanie Benjamin

#57. The only way we can touch the heart of men is to overlook an offense.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#58. Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Terry Tempest Williams

#59. A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Bernie Siegel

#60. What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

Morley Safer

#61. Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

Allen Drury

#62. Without the compassionate understanding of the fear and trepidation that lie behind courageous speech, we are bound only to our arrogance.

David Whyte

#63. My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

W. Eugene Smith

#64. This world is full of kind and compassionate people just like you.

Debasish Mridha

#65. One good, compassionate and caring Self is a thousand times greater than all the fanciful, imaginary supernatural entities in the world.

Abhijit Naskar

#66. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#67. When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement ... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#68. If I had to go into a battle and I needed someone loyal and courageous to cover my blindside, I know damn well Woody would be my man. I know, too, that God hasn't created a more generous, compassionate, or more understanding man than Woody Hayes.

Jack Tatum

#69. Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?

Matthieu Ricard

#70. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love,

Anonymous

#71. Zeus energy, which encompasses intelligence, robust health, compassionate decisiveness, good will, generous leadership. Zeus energy is male authority accepted for the sake of the community.

Robert Bly

#72. Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love - the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#73. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.

Archie Lee

#74. Let me be kind, let me be compassionate, let me be joyful, and let me sing a song of love.

Debasish Mridha

#75. As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

E.B. White

#76. Patience as we wait to take action is a kind of compassionate mind. Impatience on the other hand can be a source of failure.

Dalai Lama

#77. Once you've done the mental work, there comes a point you have to throw yourself into the action and put your heart on the line. That means not only being brave, but being compassionate towards yourself, your teammates and your opponents.

Phil Jackson

#78. Be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#79. When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than do.

John O'Donohue

#80. In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Harry Browne

#81. It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding - more like Jesus - if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here - the more we will be able to enjoy heaven - when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.

Janette Oke

#82. When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

Cheri Huber

#83. Compassion is a beautiful grace that releases hate and fearful emotions. Through the power of compassion, when put in delicate circumstances with dysfunctional human beings, rather than loathing their behaviour, you can be compassionate to their internal suffering and love them unconditionally.

Christopher Dines

#84. Impartial, compassionate, brave, and understanding ... these are the traits that come with putting the Noble Eightfold Path into practice. By following this path, anyone can become the kind of leader the Buddha hoped to see - a leader of peace.

Victoria Stoklasa

#85. The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

Richard Rohr

#86. You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

Nikki Rowe

#87. It must have been so impossible to think about it and dare to do that, so they feel compassionate for her. I don't think the movie would work otherwise.

Diane Kruger

#88. Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble. That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless - that's your job, to bless. You'll be a blessing and also get a blessing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#89. It's a compassionate reaction that all testicles have for fellow testicles being whacked, kicked or ripped to shreds by footballs, martial arts students or dead palm frond stubs, respectively.

Bill Kasal

#90. There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#91. The man of good character is humble before those less educated than him, compassionate to those less fortunate than him, and kind to those inferior to him.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#92. Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

Karen Armstrong

#93. I expect my sister to be compassionate about my heart ache. Gentle. Sympathetic.
What i get is, "you're a goddamn idiot, you know that, Drew?"
I bat you were starting to wonder why we call her The Bitch. Well, here you go.

Emma Chase

#94. A lot of people have fancy things to say about customer service, but it's just a day-in, day-out, ongoing, never-ending, persevering, compassionate kind of activity.

Christopher McCormick

#95. I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.

Marci Shimoff

#96. As Eckhart, one of Otto's many sources, had asserted centuries earlier, referring to the Other as "God," the religious seeker must set aside "any idea about God as being good, wise, [or] compassionate.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#97. Controversy and contention are weakening habits. If Satan can succeed in creating in us the pastime of arguing, quarreling, and contention, it is easier for him to bind us with heavier sins which can destroy our eternal lives. Anger is a poor substitute for self-mastery and compassionate service.

Marvin J. Ashton

#98. Anyen Rinpoche is a compassionate embodiment of wisdom. The skillful teachings in The Tibetan Yoga of Breath will be a source of peace and happiness for many in these troubled times, for which I am very grateful.

Garchen Rinpoche

#99. The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#100. Be compassionate; bring joy to sadness.

Debasish Mridha