Top 41 Having Compassion Quotes
#1. Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...
George McGovern
#2. When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#3. I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
Laila Ali
#4. No penance is greater than the one done for maintaining peace, no happiness is better than the one received from satisfaction, no disease is more damaging than greed and no Dharma is better than the one having compassion for all.
B.K. Chaturvedi
#5. There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.
Mike White
#6. Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.
Pema Chodron
#7. To have compassion for a character is no different from having compassion for another human being.
Tom Hiddleston
#8. One of our greatest challenges is to handle Winning without arrogance, being educated without being condescending and having compassion without developing indifference
Kalon Jackson
#9. It's great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.
Terry Crews
#10. We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the work, our community as members of the same body.
John Winthrop
#11. Nothing beats having a genuine compassion for human souls. If there is one thing I know, it's that people want to be acknowledged; they want to be heard; and above all, they want to be appreciated.
Sasha Azevedo
#12. Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other people and to take steps toward encountering God.
Jonathan Morris
#13. A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.
Derren Brown
#14. It is no kindness to treat unhappy people as helpless, hopeless, or inadequate, no matter what has happened to them. Kindness is having faith in the truth and that people can handle it and use it for their benefit. True compassion is helping people help themselves.
William Glasser
#15. I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?
Walter Scott
#16. A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel up climb.
Betty Smith
#17. True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.
Dalai Lama
#18. I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. When you're having what you feel like is a "bad day" and then someone comes along out of nowhere and extends to you the simplest of kind gestures, you feel it so deeply within your heart.
Miya Yamanouchi
#20. You can't go into the ring and be a nice guy. I would go a month, two months, without having sex. It worked for me because it made me a vicious animal. You can't fight if you have any compassion or anything like that.
Jake LaMotta
#21. We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
Deepak Chopra
#22. Having Christian convictions can't ever negate having Christ's compassion.
Ann Voskamp
#23. Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.
Molly Friedenfeld
#25. How can this experience I am now having support the awakening of greater clarity and compassion in my life?
Ted Falcon
#26. I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.
Larry Gelbart
#27. Since we desire the true happiness that is brought about by a calm mind, and such peace of mind arises only from having a compassionate attitude, we need to make a concerted effort to develop compassion.
Dalai Lama
#29. Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.
Josemaria Escriva
#30. That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.
Benjamin Carson
#31. Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.
Gautama Buddha
#32. While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.
Meryn G. Callander
#33. I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.
Lori Lansens
#34. Having true compassion for people isn't about the words that are spoken and the actions that are done. Having true compassion is an attitude from the heart that can't be faked.
Anna M. Aquino
#35. Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole.
Stephen Schwartz
#37. Compassion is not having any hesitation to reflect your light on things
Chogyam Trungpa
#38. The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.
Truman G. Madsen
#39. John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.
Paul C. Nagel
#40. Pure love is giving without the mind of having given. This is true love, compassion and virtue.
Woo Myung
#41. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
