Top 100 Have Compassion Quotes
#1. I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.
Frank Wolf
#2. Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts His people and will have compassion on His afflicted ones (Isa. 49:13).
Beth Moore
#3. Without satisfaction, you cannot have compassion. You have to be satisfied souls, then your compassion will act.
Nirmala Srivastava
#4. I can tell you and promise you that I've had struggles in my life. And I would love to have people understand that Mitt and I have compassion for people that are struggling.
Ann Romney
#5. I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world.
Joseph Fiennes
#6. Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The
Thich Nhat Hanh
#7. Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.
Marguerite Poland
#8. Atheists' anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.
Greta Christina
#9. There is no verb for compassion, but you have an adverb for compassion. That's interesting to me. You act compassionately. But then, how to act compassionately if you don't have compassion? That is where you fake. You fake it and make it. This is the mantra of the United States of America.
Dayananda Saraswati
#10. I feel like my joy in life has intensified, (and) my compassion for people has just strengthened. I have compassion that I wouldn't have had before.
Lauren Scruggs
#11. The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
Hosea Ballou
#12. I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer
#13. One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
Bill Nighy
#14. See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart is, how lovely they smile, how much they care and have compassion, how generous and giving they are which becomes much more attractive.
Suzan Battah
#16. Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Gautama Buddha
#17. The word compassion means "with suffering." To have compassion is to willingly join in suffering - to show those you love that you will not let them suffer
Sy Montgomery
#18. Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.
Joanne Greenberg
#19. People need to have compassion for others.
Frank Bruno
#20. If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it ...
Narendra Modi
#21. The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding.
Nhat Hanh
#22. Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.
Deepak Chopra
#23. When we talk to our fellow men and they tell us about their troubles, we will listen to them carefully if we have love for them. We will have compassion for their suffering and pain, for we are God's creatures; we are a manifestation of the love of God.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#24. Be happy for those who are happy, have compassion towards the unhappy, and maintain equanimity towards the wicked.
Patanjali
#25. When you're playing a character, as an actor or actress, you can't judge them for what they do. You really have to find what is in them that you have compassion for and fall in love with that character, regardless of what they do or how they behave.
Alyssa Sutherland
#26. Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it ... you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.
Monica Lewinsky
#27. To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing less than evil.
Stacey Jay
#28. Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
Russell Simmons
#29. Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.
Matthew Dowd
#30. Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.
Alyssa Milano
#31. We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.
Amit Ray
#32. If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. Jesus said "love," "forgive," have "compassion" and "don't judge." Buddha said "observe," "be silent," and "serve."
Bryan Kest
#34. Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
Eminem
#35. The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father
Denzel Washington
#36. To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being.
Tom Hiddleston
#37. My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.
LZ Granderson
#38. Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.
Miller Williams
#39. Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent ...
Lauren Mackler
#40. It was so much simpler to see other people's wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.
Lisa Unger
#41. Have compassion towards each other, including animals.
Matt Sorum
#42. You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy.
Jeff Bridges
#43. I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.
Suze Orman
#44. Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.
Leah C. Fowler
#45. You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.
Pascal Bruckner
#46. To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.
Giovanni Boccaccio
#47. Have compassion for your past. By showing love to the present. Your past was just the portal to now.
Matthew Donnelly
#48. My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.
Deepak Chopra
#49. I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
Mike White
#50. O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
Gautama Buddha
#51. Have compassion and forgive the mistakes of others. If you cannot forgive ignore but never hate them, because hatred will always lead to destruction.
Alok Jagawat
#52. God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But ... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
Karen Walker
#53. When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, "Please have compassion toward millionaires." That's not easy.
Dalai Lama
#54. 19Once again you will have compassion on us. You will trample our sins under your feet and throw them into the depths of the ocean! +
Anonymous
#55. My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read ... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion.
Ann Cleeves
#56. Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.
Laozi
#57. 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
#58. Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.
Bryant McGill
#59. It is not sufficient to have compassion only for those who are cute.
Richard Summerbell
#60. Let a man fear, above all, me, his God, and so much the gentler will he become toward my creatures and animals, on whom, on account of me, their Creator, he ought to have compassion.
Bridget Of Sweden
#61. The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God's favorite place.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#62. You toyed with her heart. I know what that's like. I can have compassion for her because of that."
"I met you first," he whispered.
"That doesn't give you license to be cruel.
Sylvain Reynard
#63. Every human being has to have compassion and try to be understanding, and that goes double for people who share your blood,
Kristen Ashley
#65. To have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any emotion -joy , anxiety, happiness, pain
Milan Kundera
#66. Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.
Natalie Goldberg
#67. Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.
Brene Brown
#68. How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.
Madeleine L'Engle
#69. So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho'oponono technique.
Marci Shimoff
#70. I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.
Joe Arpaio
#71. Writers, like priests, should have compassion ... and a sensitivity to pain ...
John Geddes
#72. When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan Perlis
#73. If you don't have compassion you won't be compelled to help.
Mark Helprin
#74. If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings
this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.
Gautama Buddha
#75. Of course we have compassion. We just don't believe the safety net should be used as a hammock.
Allen West
#76. Let us have compassion upon each other, and let the strong tenderly nurse the weak into strength, and let those who can see guide the blind until they can see the way for themselves.
Brigham Young
#77. Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Who can have compassion on the ignorant is a victim of regrets, a supporter of ignorance and a builder of stupidity.
Auliq Ice
#79. Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable
Homer
#80. To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
Marshall Allman
#81. Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.
Bell Hooks
#82. If a fish feels sad when a fisherman's boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#84. In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#85. Because they have shamefully trampled underfoot the grace of God, they have forfeited all rights to compassion.
Daniel I. Block
#86. There is giving, and there is knowingness. Some have generosity and compassion but no true knowledge. Some have knowledge but no self-sacrifice. When both are present, that person is blessed and prosperous. Such a being is truly incomparable.
Rumi
#87. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#90. You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran
#91. As human beings we each have a responsibility to care for humanity. Expressing concern for others brings inner strength and deep satisfaction. As social animals, human beings need friendship, but friendship doesn't come from wealth and power, but from showing compassion and concern for others.
Dalai Lama
#92. Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).
Mark Salzman
#93. O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.
John Piper
#94. Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
Anna Funder
#95. We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
Brene Brown
#96. There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
Gavin Hood
#97. Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
Annie Lennox
#98. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. -Nelson Mandela
Michael Gallegos Borresen
#99. Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.
Oprah Winfrey
#100. You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.
Frederick Lenz
